Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:00:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Shawn Webb <shawnwebb@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc calls and ioctl calls to soundcard cause segfault Message-ID: <20041013210029.GA88757@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <001201c4b224$fcd68320$65cfe404@shawns> References: <001201c4b224$fcd68320$65cfe404@shawns>
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In the last episode (Oct 14), Shawn Webb said: > I've got to rewrite the source due to hard disk problems, so I'll just put > it in this email: > > arg = FORMAT; > if (ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT, &arg) < 0) > { > perror("ioctl setfmt"); > exit(1); > } > > if (ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE, &arg) < 0) > { > perror("ioctl getospace"); > exit(1); > } SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE takes a pointer to an "audio_buf_info" type, so you actually asked it to write sizeof(audio_buf_info) bytes to the location of the "arg" variable, which is... (drumroll) on the stack :) Create another variable "audio_buf_info info;" above main, and change that call to "if (ioctl(fd, SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE, &info) < 0)" and your program will run fine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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