On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:45:29PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Tim van der Molen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Thunar (a file manager for Xfce; not in ports) segfaults on i386 > > -current. The author of Thunar thinks the crash is due to a call to > > getdirentries() and has asked me to ask about it here. > > > > Does anyone know what could have caused this crash? > > > > The bug report: > > <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2269> > > > > The relevant source file: > > <http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/thunar/tags/thunar-0.4.0rc1/thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-os-bsd.c> > > Look for the second occurrence of `getdirentries' in that file; that's > > were the crash happens. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > Something to try: avoid alloca(). Threaded programs by default have > very limited stack space per thread, 32k or 64k iirc. So it could be > that the alloca() call trips over the stack. Check the man page of > alloca() for details. > > A workaround would be to use malloc(), and check its return value; > that should be done with alloca() as well, btw. > > -Otto > >
I had the same suspicion and send him a patch. Alloca() was the problem... FYI, Tobias
