[Orca-users] orca seg fault on SAN connected host - Update needed to RICHPse?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Robert,

Am 18.01.2008 um 14:17 schrieb Robert Stannard:
> I am running orcallator.se from orca site, I think
>
> root at unix-eval # /usr/ucb/ps -auxwww | grep orca
> root     17373  0.0  0.42647225824 pts/3    S 13:14:07  0:01 /opt/ 
> RICHPse/bin/se.sparcv9 -DWATCH_OS -I/opt/orca/lib/SE/3.4 /opt/orca/ 
> lib/orcallator.se

That's good.

> Now have orca running after adding old fix to diskinfo.se from Carl  
> Staroscik, backed by jsutch
>
> root at unix-eval # diff /opt/RICHPse/include/diskinfo.se /opt/RICHPse/ 
> include/diskinfo.se.orig
> 215,220d214
> <      // 09-12-2005 Carl Hack to stop segmentation faults - must  
> be a bug in readdir -
> <       if (ld > 18446744071543217903) {
> <         continue;
> <       }
> <      // get the segmentation fault here when ld is >  
> 18446744071543217903
> <      // jsutch 20060805

This is a really ugly fix as it does assumptions on memory layout
(you're doing absolute pointer comparison here, right?) Upgrading
to 3.4.1 solves this issue reliably.

Best regards

   -- Dagobert

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