Re: Can't build working balsa

["Sarel J. Botha" <sjb dundee lia net>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:48:06AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> though.  The segfault is in the opendir() call, as the backtrace shows.

Maybe memory is being trampled badly and it's just a coincidence that it
segfaults in the opendir().

>From the malloc() manpage:
---
       Recent  versions of Linux libc (later than 5.4.23) and GNU
       libc (2.x) include a malloc implementation which  is  tun­
       able  via  environment  variables.   When MALLOC_CHECK_ is
       set, a special (less  efficient)  implementation  is  used
       which  is  designed  to be tolerant against simple errors,
       such as double calls of free() with the same argument,  or
       overruns of a single byte (off-by-one bugs).  Not all such
       errors can be proteced against, however, and memory  leaks
       can  result.   If  MALLOC_CHECK_ is set to 0, any detected
       heap corruption is silently ignored; if set to 1, a  diag­
       nostic  is  printed  on  stderr;  if  set to 2, abort() is
       called immediately.  This can be useful because  otherwise
       a  crash may happen much later, and the true cause for the
       problem is then very hard to track down.
---

Maybe this helps you track down the problem.

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