Filter crash signal 11
Kent
Kent
Mon Nov 15 14:01:29 PST 2004
You're correct. The problem was that my filter was closing a garbage file descriptor at exit. The timing was such that the seg fault occurred just when the socket backend had processed 16384 bytes.
Thanks again.
Michael Sweet wrote:
> Kent Hammerstrom wrote:
> > I developed a filter based on the texttohp filter example in the CUPS
> > book. The filter processes both text and PCL formatted files. The
> > PCL files are passed through in 'raw' mode with a short prolog and
> > epilog. The filter crashes when printing a PCL file longer than
> > 16384 bytes (4k hex). Is the 4k limit a configurable option? If
> > not, any suggestions on how to get around this problem.
>
> There is no programmed limit in the CUPS code, so more than likely
> you are running into a bug in your code...
>
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