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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:13:24 -0500
From: Mike <mikee AT mikee DOT ath DOT cx>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: DEADBEEF in strace
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Shaffer, Kenneth might have said:

> Is this DEADBEEF from windows something to worry about?
> 
> Program name: C:\cygwin\bin\basename.exe (pid 1204, ppid 1596)
> App version:  1005.16, api: 0.128
> DLL version:  1005.16, api: 0.128
> DLL build:    2005-04-25 20:26
> OS version:   Windows NT-5.0
> Heap size:    402653184
> Date/Time:    2005-05-13 08:34:52

DEADBEEF is one of the few words that can be spelled in hex.
In the past cpu registers on RS/6000 servers were initialized
to DEADBEEF when a program started. Could it be the same still?

Mike

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