Dave,
A segmentation fault is usually caused by the program writing in a
memory area that is not allocated (it could be a result of the optimizer
sometime as well). That means that it can potentially overwrite code
that are executing there. In worst case scenario you could even cause a
kernel Oops. A software that discovers that it is missing a conf file
will obviously have a potential of not working. However, instead of
writing in a memory area that it has not allocated, it should inform
about the situation in a log file
Now, if you are putting a software on the market that would take down
your system just because you are missing or having an incorrect
configuration file, you will find a lot of people seeing that as a bug.
Imagine ntp segfault and coredump just because the /etc/ntp.conf is not
there.
I think my problem is caused by the 32 versus 64 bits difference on
Itanium. Belive me, I have seen this before.
Anybody out there with experience of compiling this animal on Itanium?
By the way, I just built it and ran it on another architecture. Without
the conf files and there was no segmentation fault.
Thanks,
// Jonas
Anyhow, I think
Dave Cotton wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:55 -0600, Jonas Arndt wrote:
I will do that. I think you are missing the point here though. If a
program would SegFault from missing conf files, it would be a HUGE
bug.
Why is it a _huge_ bug? The software _will not_ run without it's config
files in place. This is clearly stated in the make cycle. Must the
programers put a check in every time to help those who want to try their
own method?
The problem I am facing is most likely due to my plattform.
From reading this thread I doubt it.
As they have build Debian packages for Itanium I was hoping that
somebody would have experience with compiling on Itanium and could
give me some pointers.
A maker of plastic model kits found many cases where people could not
put the model together, they simply said "If your method doesn't succeed
kindly read our instructions"
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