Re: segfault on exit?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Daniel Kasak wrote:

> to the app's menu's 'destroy' signal.
> Is this something to worry about or not? Is there something I'm 
> supposed to do other than 'exit'?

using exit() shouldn't be a problem.

a stack trace would help.  you can get one from a core file.


  $ ulimit -c unlimited   # drop a core file on segfaults
  $ perl yourscript.pl   # run it to make it segfault
  $ gdb perl corefile
  (gdb) backtrace
  [send this text]


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