[TAG] segmentation fault

Jason Creighton jcreigh at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 00:53:05 MSD 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:25:19AM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:

> Run "df" and make sure you aren't running out of disk space.  Sometimes 
> a full disk causes seemingly-unrelated errors.

Hmmm...how *could* those be related? The only thing I can think of is
lazy C programmers thinking "write() can't fail", but I can't see how
that would lead to a segfault. (On-disk data corruption, yes, much
head-scratching, yes, hard to find bugs, yes, but it shouldn't effect
cause the program to segfault.)

Jason Creighton





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