Re: [vserver] logs filling with this

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun 12 Sep 2010 - 17:34:20 BST
Message-ID: <20100912163420.GH26341@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:29:31PM +0200, John Feuerstein wrote:
> Hi Gordan,

> On 09/11/2010 01:13 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> > vxW: [???sysctl???,1927:#40020|40020|40020] denied 22 access to
> > proc:ffff88007a8db860[#0,1767]

> > I also get unprintable characters in there, as you can see around
> > the process name (in the pasted example above, around "sysctl")

those aren't unprintable characters, but they are high
code characters i.e. non-ASCII characters (0xBB, 0xAB)
which in most iso-8859 character sets map to the double
angle quotes (guillemets) which look like the symbols
usually used for fast forward or fast rewind ....

> these are hardcoded in include/linux/vserver/debug.h:

> #define VX_WARN_TASK "[???%s???,%u:#%u|%u|%u] "

> I guess Herbert put them there to be able to handle weird executable
> names containing one of the other separators...

right on!

best,
Herbert

> Regards,
> John
Received on Sun Sep 12 17:35:35 2010

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