frame buffers pro and con

[Shaun Oliver]

Hi kerry.
Thanks for that information.
The reason I'm so interested in seg faults is simply because ari-yahoo
tends to only work every second night for me.
I gotta tell u it's givin me the s**ts. and, as far as I'm aware,
ari-yahoo is the only console based yahoo messenger client available for
linux.
correct me if I'm wrong people?


Shaun..
"We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going
to discuss it with our staff."
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > Shaun..
> > "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going
> > to discuss it with our staff."
> > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
> > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on
> > www.jong.com:6667
> > 
> > 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.
> > > 
> > >   Kirk
> > > 
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