Re: lib/40753

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 24,  3:00pm, spetrov%mallsi.com@localhost ("Svetoslav Petrov") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lib/40753

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|  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
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|  0x00007f7ffdbcea70 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
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|  #0  0x00007f7ffdbcea70 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
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|  (gdb)

The bug is in your code. You need to include <string.h> before you
can use strerror(). Otherwise the compiler thinks it defaults to
int and does not return the full pointer leading to a crash.
gcc -Wall is your friend.

christos