Segmentation fault?

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Fri Jul 16 04:04:00 PDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:53 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey Kay,
> 
> Thanks for looking into this!
> 
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:54:14AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:30:02AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > I will ping Greg for the sysfs-file and the libsysfs mainatainer to change
> > > the size_t to ssize_t.
> > 
> > Seems related to the pcmcia-sysfs-patch, that made it into mainline,
> > 6 days ago.
> >
> 
> Which, apart from that, is great code by the way; now only the pcmcia
> IDE driver needs fixing and then 16-bit pcmcia hotplug works nicely.

Yeah it's really nice, after all these years. I didn't expected to ever
see it :)

> > A older kernel on my box works fine as before. So if you
> > have a older kernel or no pcmcia, the bug will not hit you.
> > 
> > I sent a mail to the patch submitter and to the libsysfs people.
> > 
> 
> Ok, remember that HAL includes a local copy of libsysfs, version 0.4 I
> think, so maybe this is already fixed upstream.

Yes, it is. I just looked at it, but the CVS on sourceforge seems pretty
old and it's only in the tarball (version 1.1.0):
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44427

Thanks,
Kay

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