Jonas Arndt wrote:
Dave,
A segmentation fault is usually caused by the program writing in a
memory area that is not allocated (it could be a result of the
optimizer sometime as well). That means that it can potentially
overwrite code that are executing there. In worst case scenario you
could even cause a kernel Oops. A software that discovers that it is
missing a conf file will obviously have a potential of not working.
However, instead of writing in a memory area that it has not
allocated, it should inform about the situation in a log file
A kernel oops instead of a segfault? What kind of buggy OSes are you
used to? Crazy memory access should only cause segfaults. The ability of
an application to cause an oops would be considered a *very* serious OS bug.
Programs should not segfault when they have bad or missing config files.
However, a large percentage do. If you haven't realised that you must
have lived a sheltered life. :-)
Now, if you are putting a software on the market that would take down
your system just because you are missing or having an incorrect
configuration file, you will find a lot of people seeing that as a
bug. Imagine ntp segfault and coredump just because the /etc/ntp.conf
is not there.
It can't bring down the system. Only the application itself.
I think my problem is caused by the 32 versus 64 bits difference on
Itanium. Belive me, I have seen this before.
Do you realise that Asterisk runs on various 64 bit machines? x86_64,
PPC, etc.
Anybody out there with experience of compiling this animal on Itanium?
By the way, I just built it and ran it on another architecture.
Without the conf files and there was no segmentation fault.
So what. This means nothing.
What not try a proper installation, and see what happens. Just to keep
the rest of us idiots who haven't a clue about config files and proper
operation happy.
Regards,
Steve
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