Re: Segmentation Fault Question

[Mel Harbour <mrh30 cam ac uk>]

>  So, you never initialized you path (Gstring* path;).
>
>  Make sure you initialise you  'path' variable inside that function.

I was originally doing this with a char * variable instead and then 
calling realloc each time round the loop which pulls the file names from 
the child program's address space.  I haven't yet checked it with the 
version using GString instead.  With the char * version, why would it 
work if I got rid of the display() statement though?  Surely if the 
pointer wasn't initialised properly it shouldn't affect it one way or 
the other whether display() is being called or not?

Mel