Re: [dwm] problem with dmenu3.1

From: Premysl \ <dfenze_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:34:20 +0200

>
> A silly question: can you generate the order in which it queries things
> without actually doing the test and see what is being tested when the crash
> occurs, and then look to see if it's some strange filesystem object (a
> socket, dangling symlink, etc). The fact it's happening at the same place
> always suggests it's data dependent. If nothing else, you could move the
> crashing object temporarily out of the search path and see if that stops the
> crash.
>
> cheers, dave tweed
>

but the inner loop for diving thru the $PATH directories for executable
files are SAME as that in dmenu-3.0 - only code that wasn't changed while
adding caching :)

Frank, can you run 'sh -x dmenu_path_from_dmenu3.0' as first place where it
can segfault is: ' test -x "$file" && echo "${file##*/}"'.

--anydot
Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 11:34:22 UTC

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