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bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
From: |
Steve Kemp |
Subject: |
bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 03:46:35 +0000 |
> > I expect evaluating lisp to not kill the editor
>
> Valid Lisp, I agree. But yours isn't.
Here we disagree.
I enjoy reporting bugs when invalid things are tried, because I
expect software to be robust, or as much as possible. If you feed
invalid script to gawk, perl, emacs, etc, etc, I expect an error
not a segfault.
I appreciate there are often difficult cases, such as infinite
recursion, division by zero, and memory exhaustion, but the idea
that ones programming environment is free to crash if your code
is wrong is .. unpleasant.
> > In the real world? Nobody.
>
> Then why are we discussing this use case? Let's talk about
> more practical and interesting cases.
I read from this that I should not bother running any more
fuzzing, after all if it does result in any crashes they're a result
of bogus-coding that would never be hit in the real world.
That's unfortunate, but I've no particular wish to argue
in public. I will follow your suggestion.
Bug left open because it crashes for me, if it fails to crash
for others with a somewhat reasonable error message I guess
that is good.
Steve
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- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Steve Kemp, 2017/07/05
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Andreas Schwab, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Andreas Schwab, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Andreas Schwab, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Daniel Colascione, 2017/07/06
- bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/06