[mapserver-users] MapServer 4 vs 5 seg fault

[Russell McOrmond]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Michael E Masscotte wrote:

> I haven't tried RHEL5 yet, but it happens with RHEL 4 and Solaris 10.

   I'm wondering if the core dump is around string manipulations?  I bumped 
into a similar problem that traced to the strings being a NULL rather than 
a pointer to a string.  This happened because the error returns from some 
string functions weren't being checked before trying to use these returns 
as strings.

   Check error returns from mapstring functions.
   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2988

   It may be we are seeing something similar where an error message isn't 
able to be read as the program core dumps before the message is stored.

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