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Article #23Re: Gethostbyname Error
From: Dave Olson
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:19
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:19
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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?
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...
It is sort of expected that anybody writing code is at least
capable of getting backtraces with a debugger.
--
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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