frame buffers pro and con

[Kerry Hoath]

If you are experiencing random memory corruption
or there is something wrong with your c-libaries you can get segfaults.
I got a segfault in rm the ohter day on an unstable system I had
and I know that wasn't bad coding.
You can often strace the program to see which function is causing
it to drop its bundle.

Regards, Kerry.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:17:54PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> ah. now I see. it's a little clearer to me now.
> basicly it's due to bad programming then? and not necissarly on the part
> of the compiler either. from what kirk just posted, it's either the fault
> of the coder him/herself or it's simplya memory issue.
> 
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> On 15 Jun 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 
> > A segfault or segmentation fault or violation is when a pointer in the
> > code tries to access memory outside the range allocated as user space
> > by the operating system.  I really mean outside your user memory
> > space.  There are many reasons for getting segfaults but the most
> > common is when the programmer didn't use a memory pointer correctly in
> > their code.  In a program which doesn't have all of it's components
> > installed, a segfault will occur because the program which faulted
> > tried to access memory, such as shared, and it wasn't available.  The
> > o.s. says, woops you're trying to get out of your allowable range,
> > naughty naughty.
> > 
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