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[gtk-list] Re: gtk_init wierdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Pfeiffer)
Thu Oct 22 10:25:20 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:23:40 -0600
From: Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
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(pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu)
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Yikes. That IS scary. I thought only Solaris was brain-dead enough to
let things like that slip through. Glad to see libc6 (glibc2) crashes on
that error.
It doesn't exactly crash on that error, it just lets nature take its
course on the bad pointer. This can include getting the stack so
badly corrupted that gdb is useless in finding the problem, and then
crashing.
Having spent several days a few weeks ago tracking down a crash that
turned out to be closing a file twice, I'd much prefer it would fail
and return EBADF.
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