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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Gethostbyname Error
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec21.033141.15406@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 06:19:57 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.033141.15406@news2.cis.umn.edu> coyle@mars.cs.umn.edu (Mark Stephan Coyle) writes:
- | I am programming on a 4D 310 VGX and am getting a segmentation fault
- | whenvever I use the system call "gethostbyname". The code works on
- | other machines, bu not on this sgi. Any clues?
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- Hard to say, w/o any backtrace or the relevant part of the code.
- Are you perhaps passing a bogus pointer?
-
- While folks at SGI are willing to help, we aren't psychic...
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- It is sort of expected that anybody writing code is at least
- capable of getting backtraces with a debugger.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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