[Perfparse-users] Segmentation fault running perfparse

[Tim W. <Tim...@pi...>]

Greetings Programs!

I encountered a problem running perfparse (v0.10 and v0.0.11): whenever I
run it to parse the log file, it gives me a segmentation fault. As long as
you don't request to parse the logfile, e.g. by using --help or
--show-config, it runs fine.

So I dug into the code and found that the call to the mysql library to
connect to the db (in common.c) causes the segmentation fault. I have no
clue as to why. I compiled a small program that connects to the database
using the same call with the same parameters, and that works perfectly.

I circumvented the problem by using mysql_connect and mysql_select_db
instead of mysql_real_connect. This works fine! The only problem with this
construct is that according to the mysql manual, the mysql_connect function
is deprecated. 

A few questions about this:
- Am I the only one experiencing this problem?
- What more info do you (the developers) need to look into this? (providing
you'd want to :) )

Regards,
Tim.