Hi, On Wednesday 21 March 2012 21:50:25 Martin McCormick wrote: > I've got some code which I wrote about 6 or 8 years ago that > apparently doesn't get along right now with FreeBSD9.0. In the > problem code, there is a loop that uses fgets to read a line > from a file. It runs properly until the 2708TH iteration and > then it dumps core with a segmentation fault. > > char string0[256]; > more lines of code . . . > > while ( fgets(string0,sizeof(string0),fp_config)) {
how long is one line? Could it be that the failing line has 256 or more characters? I would use while ( fgets(string0,sizeof(string0) -1,fp_config)) { to make sure that the last character does not cause a buffer overrun, no matter what fgets is supposed to do. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"