Re: Segmentation fault while restoring
Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Sun, 18 May 2003 19:30:15 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.devel |
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[On 18 May, @16:03, Frank wrote in "[hdup-dev] Segmentation fault ..."] > Hi! > > Sometimes I get a segmenatation fault while restoring a backup. > > The debugger told me, it happens in hduplib.c:851 > globfree(&globbuf); > > I found the reason in the source hduprestore.c:135 > archivename = (char*) malloc(strlen(directory) + h + 12 + 8 + 15 +40); > > At this point the content of directory is random. > Because of that the result of "strlen(directory)" can > be 0 as good as a very big value. > > The easiest solution is: > archivename = (char*) malloc((p + h + 11 + 5) + h + 12 + 8 + 15 +40); > The same problem appears in line 137 with matchname. thanks! you're absolutely right. Your fix is in the CVS. grtz Miek