sp2hari@weblog... » technical http://sp2hari.com I see, learn and rediscover... everyday! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:06:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Seg Fault http://sp2hari.com/2007/05/03/seg-fault/ http://sp2hari.com/2007/05/03/seg-fault/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 08:00:00 +0000 sp2hari http://sp2hari.com/?p=36 Continue reading →]]> Wikipedia says,
A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system).”

I have seen hundreds and hundreds of seg faults ;-) while coding for record module of LDTP and Spider SMS. But the one i saw yesterday was new, strange and fascinating. I am not sure whether i will be able to reproduce it again. The screenshot says why it is strange and fascinating :-) .

-bash-3.1$ man su
says

AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Maybe i should consider reporting this :P .

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