On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:36 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:13:29PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > > Actually 802.11 says SSID's are octet strings of 1-32 bytes, doesn't > > have to be alphanumeric. If NM barfs on unprintable chars, then it's a bug > > and should be fixed (Showing unprintable chars using escape codes > > to the user etc.) > > It's not even unprintable characters -- just punctuation. > > I'm not 100% sure this is the problem, but it seems highly likely given that > the two places it reliably crashes are the two places iwlist scan shows > url-formatted ssids. > > And yes, it's certainly a bug -- data literally *floating out there in the > air* should not crash any program. Definitely. Can you get a backtrace of where it's crashing? It should dump output to /var/log/messages, including a backtrace. If that doesn't work, maybe hooking up to it with gdb would help. Dan > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
