On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:59:19PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[what causes a segmentation fault]
A segmentation fault (also called a seg fault, or SEGV) occurs when a
program tries to access memory it is not allowed to access. For
example dereferencing a null pointer, or dereferencing a pointer that
points beyond the memory in the system. This is a common occurence in
(buggy or in-development) C and C++ programs. If you look at 'man
kill" you will see the signal SEGV (aka SIGSEGV) defined. If you want
a process to get a segmentation fault, "kill -SEGV <pid>" will do it.
HTH,
-D
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