Coda File System

Re: volutil rpc2 errors

From: Ryan M. Lefever <lefever_at_crhc.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:10:39 -0500 (CDT)
I'm using glibc-2.1.3-15, and gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release).  These are the ones that come on Redhat 6.2


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:13:02PM -0500, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> > #6  0x40141047 in fprintf (stream=0x401e1ce0,
> >     format=0x4005bed5 "[%s]%s: \"%s\", line %d:    ") at fprintf.c:32
> > #7  0x40047200 in RPC2_SendResponse (ConnHandle=505527757,
> > Reply=0x8165ad0)
> >     at rpc2a.c:154
> ...
> > Since I didn't write any of the Coda code, its kind of hard for me to
> > debug.  Jan, does this help you any.
> 
> Yes, a lot. However I can't see how it could crash.
> 
> The crash happens in glibc's fprintf. This one is called from a debugging macro
> that is used all over the place,
> 
>     say(0, RPC2_DebugLevel, "RPC2_SendResponse()\n");
> 
> where say is defined as,
> 
> #define say(when, what, how...)\
>     do { \
>         if (when < what){ \
> 	    fprintf(rpc2_logfile, "[%s]%s: \"%s\", line %d:    ", \
> 		    rpc2_timestring(), LWP_Name(), __FILE__, __LINE__); \
> 	    fprintf(rpc2_logfile, ## how); \
> 	    fflush(rpc2_logfile); \
>         } \
>     } while(0);
> 
> The crash happens during the first fprintf call, and I don't know why.
> rpc2_timestring() definitely returns a valid pointer, __FILE__ and __LINE__
> should be good as well, so only the parameters coming from rpc2_logfile and
> LWP_Name() could be suspicious.
> 
> What compiler / libc versions are you using?
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
Received on 2001-05-16 16:10:49