On Sunday 10 February 2008 17:25:59 Christian Stalp wrote: > The whole procedure is here: (its a thread!) > > void *dblogger_fn (void *arg) > { > char insertvalues[256]; > memset (insertvalues, 0x0, 256 ); > conn = PQconnectdb("host=192.168.1.2 dbname=wlan_db user=gavle > password=brynaes"); tabellename = "traffic"; > > if (PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_BAD) > { > fprintf(stderr, "Connection to database '%s' failed.\n",dbName); > fprintf(stderr, "%s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); > exit_nicely(conn); > } > else if (PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_OK) > { > printf("Connected with database ...\n"); > printf("Datenbank : %s\n", PQdb(conn)); > printf("User : %s\n", PQuser(conn)); > } > while(1) > { > sleep(500); > snprintf(insertvalues, 255 ," %d , ' %s ' , %d ", counter, > "192.168.1.1", mytraffic->num_frames); printf("input-string: %s\n", > insertvalues); > printf("Counter: %d\n", counter); > insertinto(dbName, conn, tabellename, insertvalues); > counter++; > } > > I don't know where is here a chance for an overflow? Consider, now with > 'snprintf' it works, but before with sprintf there was this problem, BUT > only on the mips-target board. On x86 it worked also with sprintf! > > Gruss Christian I would recommend stepping through with a debugger. It might also be worth while to compile with the -S option (if using gcc) and peruse the MIPS assembly. Stephen Kratzer Network Engineer CTI Networks, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html