Re: ls problem on solaris 5.8

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:56:02 GMT

In article
<604905b75b661268523b275f34a8a42c.60620@mygate.mailgate.org>,
 "Luca Ferrari" <fluca1978@libero.it> wrote:

> pipe() = 4 [5]
> fork() = 4821
> close(5) = 0
> close(2) = 0
> fstat64(4, 0xFFBEF908) = 0
> brk(0x00076988) = 0
> brk(0x00078988) = 0
> ioctl(4, TCGETA, 0xFFBEF894) Err#22 EINVAL
> read(4, 0x0007624C, 5120) = 0
> llseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) Err#29 ESPIPE
> close(4) = 0

I think you've got a bogus "ls" command. I can't think of a reason why
it would need to fork a child process and talk to it with a pipe.

Maybe you've been rootkitted. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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