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2021-04-23
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DIVIDE-BY-ZERO

NAME

divide-by-zero - try to divide a number by zero and crash

SYNOPSIS

divide-by-zero

DESCRIPTION

divide-by-zero tries to divide a number by zero. It will immediately exit with signal 4 (SIGILL). This program is useful to test the process core dump configuration. See the Linux kernel sysctl setting kernel.core_pattern and fs.suid_dumpable for more information. In case of using a bug reporting system like apport, this program allows testing reporting the crash and retracing it.

OPTIONS

This program takes no options.

AUTHOR

Benjamin Drung [email protected]