[tpm] my perl program seg faults

[Tom Legrady]

You might need to close STDERR before you open it with a new target.  
Maybe it's just me, but I get uncooperative results with I open with  
a close.

Tom

On 3-May-07, at 4:08 PM, Indy Singh wrote:

> I don't have a real answer, but a few hacks that may help.
>
> Put a print statement at the end of your code so that you know for  
> sure whether it is dying at the end or near the end.
>
> I noticed that dynamic libraries are never unloaded, see if this  
> but code at the end of your script helps:
> DynaLoader::dl_unload_file($_) foreach (@DynaLoader::dl_librefs);
>
> As another hack you could try redirecting STDERR to /dev/null at  
> the end of your script.  I think something like this may work:
> open (STDERR, ">/dev/null");
>
> Indy Singh
> IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fulko Hew" <fulko.hew at gmail.com>
> To: <tpm at to.pm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:57 PM
> Subject: [tpm] my perl program seg faults
>
>
>> I've posted this to PerlMonks, but I thought I'd throw it out to  
>> TPM as well...
>>
>> My latest app, is a forking TCP server/client. It runs fine and does
>> its thing. So I put it into a shell loop, and every once in a while I
>> see it die (near or at the end of processing where its exiting) and
>> say:
>>
>> "Segmentation fault"
>>
>> My guess is its happening after my app says exit, and Perl is doing
>> its clean up. But I'd rather never see the error message. ISTR that
>> this isn't the first app of mine that randomly emits this message on
>> shutdown, but this time around its anoying me. How can I find out
>> where/why its dying?
>>
>> B.T.W. perl -v says: "This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux- 
>> thread-multi"
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