On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 9:28am (-0600), Frank Carreiro wrote:
> Strange that it would seg fault as a normal user. I haven't tried
> Maelstrom yet in RH7.1 however I have it installed on a 6.2 box and it
> runs fine from any user account.
Some investigation showed that although they were all describing themselves
as 3.0.1 the rpm's from redhat (such as I could find) had this problem and
the rpms and source from the author's site did not. Perhaps this explains
the differences you're seeing. It could also have to do with your umask.
If, for instnace, your umask was set to 002 and your users shared their
group (not default redhat settings) then they would have write access to the
temporary file even though they didn't own it.
> I would check permissions though I can't see why lack of permissions
> would seg fault anything. <---(ignorance speaking here).
In this case it was becuase the return of a syscall was not checked. So
when it failed (permission denied) it wasn't handled properly and the
program tried to use a filehandle that didn't exist.
M.
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