segmentation violation in fp

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Aug 18 14:43:37 PDT 2004


In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:19:16PM -0500, Ryan Powers achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Fairlight said:
> 
> > I shouldn't worry about the -way- it crashes, so much as the fact that it
> > crashes at all.  Both result in a segv--it's a matter of how cleanly they
> > exit.  Eliminate the crash entirely and how it crashes won't matter.  :)
> 
> At first blush it appears to be identical to a previous bug with
> automatic and input processing tables which could be triggered if the
> files had zero length. The obvious work-around is to delete the file
> and create a new one with something in it, such as a comment.

Makes sense, as Jeremy told me that he ended up with a zero length file.  I
didn't check my file sizes--I just verified the crashing bit.

> This will be fixed in 5.0.14.

Cool.  Thanks for the update!

mark->
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