Aha, I remember that discussion.  Before my reinstall I had the CVS of ocaml,
and this time I'm using a release.  I didn't realize that fix wasn't in the new
releases (have been using CVS version for a long time).

Thanks a bunch.

Kenn

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:00:03AM -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> Kenneth Knowles wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I get a segfault from Unix.gethostbyname whenever I have wins enabled in my
> > nsswitch.conf, but with wins removed everything is fine.  I'm hoping someone
> > with more unix/ocaml-C experience will have a clue.  This was actually working a
> > week ago, but I had to "flatten and reinstall" my system.
> > 
> > $ grep wins /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > hosts:       files wins dns
> > 
> > $ gdb ocamlrun
> > (gdb) run /usr/local/bin/ocaml unix.cma
> > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/ocamlrun /usr/local/bin/ocaml unix.cma
> >         Objective Caml version 3.07+2
> > 
> > # Unix.gethostbyname "dbdev";;
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x080536c3 in string_set ()
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x080536c3 in string_set ()
> > #1  0x4034b971 in _nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> > #2  0x403cb42c in bLoaded () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> > #3  0x4039bb5b in ?? () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> > #4  0x00000294 in ?? ()
> > 
> > Now I can see it is some kind of string error, and it occurs in the WINS
> > library, but I'm sure it traces back somehow to the ocaml String_val(..)
> 
> I believe you're running into a problem where the Samba code is binding
> to the string_set symbol in Ocaml and not in the Samba library.  You'll
> find a string_set in Ocaml's byterun/str.c.
> 
> Probably the easiest solution is to get CVS HEAD of ocaml which has renamed
> many function names to have "caml_" prepended, thus avoiding this issue.
> 
> Best,
> Blair
> 
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
> Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/

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