[IRCServices] Seg fault! on ircservices-4.5pre6

[Brandon Jank]

ok disabling strok worked, doesnt core out now.

Thanks for the help!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Seg fault! on ircservices-4.5pre6


> >This plagues every version of ircservices that ive used. This ver is =
> >ircservices-4.5pre6
> >Ive tried on multiple boxes, but they are all RH 7.0
>
>      That's your problem; RedHat 7.0 uses a buggy libc.  Downgrade to
> 6.2 or use a different distribution.  (Alternatively, edit sysconf.h
> after running configure and set HAVE_STRTOK to 0; the configure
> script should detect this, but doesn't for some reason.  I suspect my
> test method is bad.)
>
> >i was taught to shy away from strtok
>
>      Then you were taught wrong.  There's nothing wrong with using
> strtok() as long as you know what it does--in particular, that it
> modifies its string parameter.  It's just like strcpy() and friends;
> perfectly safe as long as you use it properly.
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org | New address - please note.
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