Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > char *s; > asprintf(&s,"%ld-%.9s",random(),artist.original()); > > segfaults only if illegal utf8 chars appear in artist.original() > > asprintf returns -1, so s is nothing that could be freed, > and this gives a nice backtrace: So its basically just free'ing an uninitialized pointer. Well, that leads to the question whether s is unchanged in case of a -1 error return, and whether this would work: char *s = NULL; asprintf(&s,"%ld-%.9s",random(),artist.original()); Cheers, Udo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
