I can reproduce this segmentation fault. I have also been able to reproduce your "ill-formed number" problem. Very odd..
Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Chris Double <chris.dou...@double.co.nz> wrote: > I'll have to investigate more to work out why the instability happens. > Just a note on: > >> It's the pipe that's used to communicate between the processes, the >> fdopen creates buffers which do need to be independent. > > The fdopen calls are used to get a FILE* for the integer file handle > which are only used as return values in the array that is returned to > the caller - only the parent process uses it. That's why I made the > assumption it's safe to move the calls to after the fork, and > happening only in the parent process. I will investigate more though > why the instability occurs. > > There's an additional bug I get where 1!:20 segfaults if 2!:2 has been > used. When generating the table of file handle and filename mappings > it appears to not like the entries added by 2!:2. Possibly something > in the jtjadd2 function or in the function that handles 1!:20 itself. > Do you see this issue on your machine? This repeats it for me: > > 2!:2 '/bin/ls' > 9701 94708241802784 94708241803344 > 1!:20 '' > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > -- > http://bluishcoder.co.nz > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm