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Re: seg fault

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Wed Oct 23 11:11:31 2002

Message-Id: <200210231510.LAA09538@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "23 Oct 2002 11:02:56 EDT."
             <skebs5lmc4f.fsf@multics.mit.edu> 
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:10:23 -0400
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xff1b3248 in strcpy () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> (gdb) bt
> Reading in symbols for owl.c...done.
> Reading in symbols for util.c... and list.c... and editwin.c...done.
> Reading in symbols for message.c...done.
> #0  0xff1b3248 in strcpy () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1  0xff1cefdc in strdup () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #2  0x42db8 in owl_strdup (s1=0x47b3aea "From: OLC Service\nUser ishut has logged back in.\n", '\b' <repeats 151 times>...)
>     at util.c:365
> #3  0x33424 in owl_message_create_from_znotice (m=0x47b3020, n=0xffbede80) at message.c:387
> #4  0x31218 in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbef000, env=0xffbef004) at owl.c:277
> 
> 
> I'll leave the gdb process running for a while if there's any other
> information you want me to get out of it.

Thanks.  You can kill it; I'm pretty sure I know which bug that is and
it'll be fixed in the next patch release.

kretch

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