[Icecast-dev] Icecast 2.0.1 segmentation fault under LInux

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Tue Oct 5 21:36:23 PDT 2004


On Wednesday 06 October 2004 13:56, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> > This looks like something that should be "impossible". It's almost
> > certainly memory corruption somewhere - and so the bug is probably
> > somewhere else entirely, nowhere near this code.
>
> Just to clarify my understanding, this would be something caused by code in
> Icecast or one of its dependent libs, not some other running process,
> right?  And whatever is doing this would only be corrupting Icecast memory
> and nothing accessed by any other app?  Or not?
>

That's correct: icecast is doing something bad internally, and corrupting its 
own datastructures. It can't cause problems for other applications (well, 
unless those applications are relying on icecast working correctly!).

Mike




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