When tracing (if the DEBUG compile-time option was set to 1 or 2), exverror calls TRACEV to print its arguments before passing them on to exvwarning. That consumes the arguments, resulting in a segfault: $ sh -c '"' sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string $ sh -o debug -c '"' sh: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Making a copy with va_copy fixes it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Ran into this while tracking down a potential ifs leak from <http://bugs.debian.org/618023>. src/error.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/error.c b/src/error.c index f1a358d..e51d827 100644 --- a/src/error.c +++ b/src/error.c @@ -143,8 +143,10 @@ exverror(int cond, const char *msg, va_list ap) { #ifdef DEBUG if (msg) { + va_list aq; + va_copy(aq, ap); TRACE(("exverror(%d, \"", cond)); - TRACEV((msg, ap)); + TRACEV((msg, aq)); TRACE(("\") pid=%d\n", getpid())); } else TRACE(("exverror(%d, NULL) pid=%d\n", cond, getpid())); -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html