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Bug ID 6676374
Synopsis If Solaris Kills a process, the user needs to know why
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory kernel:ras
Keywords 2008.11-reviewed | 2009.06-reviewed | rtiq_reviewed | sn-interest | triaged
Responsible Engineer Abhinandan Ekande
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_10
Commit to Fix snv_116
Fixed In snv_116
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_116) , solaris_10u8(s10u8_05) (Bug ID:2167690)
Related Bugs 6472075
Submit Date 17-March-2008
Last Update Date 3-June-2009
Description
If an unrecoverable hardware error occurs and its effects can
be confined to a single user process, that process is killed
(as opposed to panicking the entire system) and the contract
holder notified.  However, no message is given to the user
as to why the process was killed.  In Solaris 8 and 9, a
message was given to the user (and the system rebooted,
as Solaris 8 and 9 did not have the concept of a contract).

This can be confusing to the user who doesn't know why his or
her process was killed.
Work Around
N/A
Comments
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