Re: Regarding yet another SIGSEGV

From: William F. Maton <wmaton_at_enterprise.ic.gc.ca_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.980901181807.31818A-100000_at_enterprise.ic.gc.ca>

>William F Maton <wmaton_at_ryouko.dgim.crc.ca> wrote:
>
>> (gdb) set args -p -x -m /home/wmaton/mail/law
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/hypermail -p -x -m /home/wmaton/mail/law
>> Loading mailbox "/home/wmaton/mail/law"... 80
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

.> _IO_least_marker (fp=0x8060b00) at genops.c:70 


>> 70 if (mark->_pos < least_so_far) 

>> (gdb) bt 

>> #0 _IO_least_marker (fp=0x8060b00) at genops.c:70 

>> #1 0x40049dd6 in save_for_backup (fp=0x8060b00) at genops.c:170 

>> #2 0x40049f94 in __underflow (fp=0x8060b00) at genops.c:244 

>> #3 0x4004794d in _IO_getline (fp=0x8060b00, buf=0xbfffd974 "\n", n=1023, 

>> delim=10, extract_delim=1) at iogetline.c:47 

>> #4 0x400471e3 in _IO_fgets (buf=0xbfffd974 "\n", n=1024, fp=0x8060b00) 

>> at iofgets.c:41 

>> #5 0x804d036 in loadheaders (mbox=0xbffff1b0 "/home/wmaton/mail/law", 

>> use_stdin=0, readone=0, dir=0xbfffe9b0 "law") at parse.c:886
>> #6 0x8053341 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbffff5e4) at hypermail.c:421
>
>It would sure help us a lot if you could:
>
>A) Decrease the mailbox as much as possible while stilling getting the
>bug.
>
>B) Mail me the mailbox that causes this. loadheaders() is in parse.c and
>that has pretty much developed to become my "arena".

Daniel,

        Sorry I didn't get back to you, I'm still clearing out my mail box after having returned from holidays... anyhow, I gave 2b3 a shot on the same file, and it works just dandy! Thank you and to Kent for the fixed version.

William Received on Wed 02 Sep 1998 12:27:24 AM GMT