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I'm wondering if anyone has ever encountered strcpy hanging up and not returning back from its call. I'm running in RHEL 4....
  1. 10-09-2007 #1
    sean04
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    strcpy bug

    I'm wondering if anyone has ever encountered strcpy hanging up and not returning back from its call. I'm running in RHEL 4.
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    No, have you run the application in gdb?
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    My guess is that you have a memory corruption problem somewhere. Memory corruption problems do not always result in a SIGSEGV.

    To check out this possibility, use electric fence with gdb. (Others might recommend similar tools.)
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