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Re: [Bug-tar] infinite symlink directory loop causes segfault with --cre
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Bug-tar] infinite symlink directory loop causes segfault with --create --dereference |
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Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:21:01 -0600 |
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On 07/15/2014 03:15 PM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Out of curiosity, Paul, could you point me to some (preferably GNU)
> project trapping segfaults in a portable way?
GNU libsigsegv is designed as a library that you can use in your own
projects for just this purpose. At least GNU m4 and GNU awk use
libsigsegv to give the user a nicer exit on stack overflow (since in
programs that are designed to interpret user input and where the user
input can cause recursion, trapping segv is the only sane thing to do to
give a nicer user error message, because predicting in advance whether
all possible user inputs will fit in a limited stack would be equivalent
to solving the Halting Problem).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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