From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 27 13:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7709152E0 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA28261; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:10:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA12060; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:10:13 -0600 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:10:13 -0600 Message-Id: <199909272010.OAA12060@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scm486@aol.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Bus Error In-Reply-To: <49064d67.252125e1@aol.com> References: <49064d67.252125e1@aol.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does anyone know what "Bus Error" means from Netscape? It means that the program has a bug in it that caused it to write/read from memory that it invalid. This can happen is you try to read from free'd memory, or write to NULL pointers, etc..... It can also happen if a program assumes a routine uses a particular implementation, and that implementation changes w/out an API change (say a shared library update), the program may be doing something 'illegal' that once worked. In short, it's a netscape bug.... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message