Oops. I misunderstood the argument to be argument to the inner function as opposed to command line argument to the program. Experiment worked! thanks, krish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Darcy" <jdarcy@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Krishnan Parthasarathi" <kparthas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:21:29 AM Subject: Re: glusterd crashes when synctask is used in conjunction with inner functions. On 10/08/2012 02:43 PM, Krishnan Parthasarathi wrote: > I tried the experiment you had suggested. The following are the > changes I made to 'inner' function to take a single integer arg. > On compiling (gcc inner.c) and running, I didn't see any crash :( Are you sure you ran it both with and without arguments? Without arguments it doesn't overwrite the stack and you won't see a crash with either version. With arguments it does overwrite the stack and you should see a crash (I did) with either version. jdarcy@jdarcy-dt snippets 14:46 $ ./inner in outer function in inner function, result = 0x5678:5678 in inner function, result = 0x5678:42 jdarcy@jdarcy-dt snippets 14:46 $ ./inner xxx in outer function in inner function, result = 0x5678:5678 rewriting stack Segmentation fault (core dumped)
