SegFault will importing some files from OpenOffice

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for trying.

> I tried what you suggested -- creating a new project with only those two
> source files.  No problem; it parsed successfully.  This is using a quite
> recent version of S-N on my Red Hat Linux 7 system.

I edited the tcl8.1/unix/tclUnixPipe.c and after the fork added a sleep for 
45 seconds if the environment variable DSLEEP is set.

Unfortunately, although I have time to attach gdb to each forked process, the 
segfault comes from executing garabage and there is no stack frame to back 
trace through.  It seems as if the exec command is loading garbage for some 
reason. 

There must be another "fork "someplace that I missed because I never see two 
forked processed (just the one since they execute so fast).  Does the dbimp 
or cbrowser code do forking too?

This could all be glibc or tools related on ppc.  I just can't figure out why 
it is dependent upon these specific text files to trigger the bug.

I will keep looking when I find some time to track this down and get it fixed.

Thanks for all your help.

Kevin

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Kevin B. Hendricks, Associate Professor
Operations and Information Technology
Richard Ivey School of Business, UWO, London ON, CANADA
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