Hi fish stiqz,
Well, after reading you first message regarding this, I tried your
tool and loaded a page with 20000 A's into my netscape and it crashed
the same moment. Impressive.
So, I decided to try this again and see, whether I could reproduce
the different behavior with different sizes you wrote about.
I started with 1000 A's and gradually increased it, always hitting
reload after i generated a new file. And ... nothing happened.
I tried hitting reload multiple times, hitting shift+reload and
viewing the source and apart from the time it took to load big pages,
absolutely nothing changed. When I got a file with 1M A's and still
nothing happened, I loaded this file into a newly opened window and ...
crash.
So I tried this again and, if you first generate a page with a form
that only has 1000 or so A's, then change that file to have much more
A's and only hit reload (Not open a new window and open the file there,
or hit Back - Forward in the history) it won't crash.
Another thing to note: it crashes after loading all the A's but not
before reaching End-Of-File.
I'm not using a rpm but got the binary from netscape (well, I think
so):
$ md5sum netscape-4.76.tgz
577f4545020a6bcbd016db549fa16f61 netscape-4.76.tgz
And yet two other notes:
In this part of the universe netscape dies of SIGBUS and not SIGSEGV
(see gdb-dump at the end of this posting)
I also tried a file with 20M A's and the only thing that I noticed was a
significant decrease in loading speed after loading some 34% or so.
> Exactly what did you do that it didn't segfault on you? In all my tests
> Netscape has died either as soon as the page loads or as soon as you try
> to go somewhere else (or reload).
Maybe Frank did what I did, as my Netscape really won't die of
anything when using a small file first.
$ gdb netscape core
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
Core was generated by `netscape crash.htm'.
Program terminated with signal 7, Bus error.
Reading symbols from /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_dns.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2
#0 0x401fca71 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x401fca71 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x8940170 in PR_ClearPendingException ()
#2 <signal handler called>
#3 0x4022c68e in _IO_sgetn (fp=0x92b9700, data=0x8ebd000, n=4096) at
genops.c:431
#4 0x40227c03 in _IO_fread (buf=0x8ebd000, size=1, count=4096,
fp=0x92b9700) at iofread.c:42
#5 0x83d2ed1 in cache_DBDataToExtCacheDBInfoStruct ()
#6 0x83d3d26 in NET_ProcessFile ()
#7 0x83dd2d7 in NET_ProcessNet ()
#8 0x82ce0ab in fe_GetSecondaryURL ()
#9 0x4003d3a1 in XtAppProcessEvent () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#10 0x82bd5cc in fe_EventLoop ()
#11 0x82bffc5 in main ()
#12 0x401f6a5e in __libc_start_main (main=0x82be7a4 <main>, argc=2,
argv=0xbffff874, init=0x827f548 <_init>, fini=0x894914c <_fini>,
rtld_fini=0x4000aa20 <_dl_fini>,
stack_end=0xbffff86c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
--
Henryk Plötz
Grüße von der Ostsee
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