On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:02:43AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote:
> 'segmentation fault' means that the program you were running
> tried to access (read/write) a memory which is not it's own.
>
> the diference between that and a MS blue screen, is that in linux
> the 'segmentation fault' of one program, does not efect the other
> or the O.S.
No, that would be Windows FUD.
Windows 95/NT is (on theory) just as 'protected' as Linux when running
32-bit applications. A 'your program performed an illegal action' Windows
thingie is the equivalent of a Linux segmentation fault - it is
recoverable, and doesn't influence other programs (Though, in Windows,
this often leads to resources not being put back to the free resources
pool, eventually leading to a system crash. No such problem with Linux,
on most cases).
A blue screen in Windows is the equivalent of a Linux kernel oops (or
panic), which is sometimes recoverable and sometimes not, but generally
leaves the system in an unstable state.
Nimrod
