Re: [gtk-list] Re: 1.1.14 and a lot of core dumps

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

I haven't checked whether this is fixed in CVS, but in case it isn't,
yes, this does seem to be a bug in 1.1.14.  I have a simple gtk app
that crashed in gtk_init because of this - nothing else was called
before it.  testgtk worked fine, but my simple program didn't.  The
patch below fixed it so hopefully it will be in 1.1.15.

Dave


> From: Bernd Senf <bsenf@imb-jena.de>
> > 
> > (A wild guess might be that you are calling free() on the
> > results of gtk_entry_get_text(). That function just returns
> > a pointer to the internal data and doesn't make a copy -
> > and never has)
> > 
> I have alse installed Version 1.1.14 and got some core in the base
> examples "base" and "filesel", but not in "testgtk".
> 
> I have found this patch within this news-list and now it works:
> 
> (Also reported from Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> and Havoc
> Pennington <hp@Jupiter.mcs.net> a few days ago):
> 
> 
> --- gutils.c.orig       Thu Jan 28 23:25:19 1999
> +++ gutils.c    Thu Jan 28 23:25:34 1999
> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
>  
>  #  ifdef HAVE_GETPWUID_R
>          struct passwd pwd;
> -        guint bufsize = 1; /* sizeof (struct passwd); */
> +        guint bufsize = sizeof (struct passwd);
>          gint error;
> 
> 
> Maybe this will solve the same problem.
> (glib 1.1.14, gtk+ 1.1.14, HPUX 10.20)