Re: core dump on realloc?

[Derek Gottfrid <derek@...>]

thank you, I believe this is the correct answer.  somebody was/is
urlencoding non ascci data in their cgi request and i was treating it as a
string. many thanks to all that responded.

derek


On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Diego Nehab wrote:

> > > >This seems very strange to me but i have seen it repeatedly now.  I have
> > > >embedded lua into a cgi to act as a simple templating engine and the cgi
> > > >is execute approx 500k times a day but once a day - it cores. Looking at
>
> Does your CGI  program perform any operations that  could be overwriting
> someone else's  heap memory? When  a program writes  a few bytes  out of
> bounds, the  memory manager usually  does not  detect it until  the next
> malloc or free.
>
> It could be that it is not Lua's fault...
>
> Regards,
> Diego.
>