Re: [Valgrind-users] Strange behaviour with both 1.9.x and 1.0.x

[Sebastian <sc...@nb...>]

Hi,


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:04:20PM -0400, Maarten Ballintijn wrote:

> It might be stating the obvious ... but it is always a GoodIdea(tm) to
> check the return values of system calls.
 
Args, yes, that was it. Thanks !

(I introduced the bug in two steps: First I thought read() will never fail
 on reading data from /dev/urandom. But then, to reproduce bug cases more
 exactly, I added an option to override using /dev/urandom but a fixed
 random data file instead. Guess what, there was more random data required
 than those file could provide and read() bumped against its file end).

A good reason to think twice about "simply modding" existing features.

Thanks to the other poster, too.


> Cheers,
> Maarten.

ciao,
Sebastian

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