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Date:      Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:09:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Frasnelli <dfrasnel@csee.wvu.edu>
To:        gljohns@bellsouth.net (Glenn Johnson)
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KnightCap dumps core while searching hash table
Message-ID:  <199808011509.LAA28771@naur.cs.wvu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808010401.XAA14122@gforce.bellsouth.net> from Glenn Johnson at "Jul 31, 98 11:01:02 pm"

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Greetings,
	I ran a bit of debugging on KnightCap this morning, and discovered
what causes the segfault (and the coredump most likely). 

Here are the applicable lines from the ktrace/kdump:
   409 KnightCap GIO   fd 3 wrote 125 bytes
       "B: -0.21 d=5 n=3581 c=14% q=16% ext=11% trunc=7% mo=83.33% 6.06% 2.27%
	 0.76% 6.82% hash=11% bad=0% mtd=6 t=0.6 d7d5 nps=7592
       "
   409 KnightCap RET   write 125/0x7d
   409 KnightCap CALL  open(0x159a0,0x601,0x1b6)
   409 KnightCap NAMI  "/export/pasiphae/status.txt"
   409 KnightCap RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
   409 KnightCap PSIG  SIGSEGV SIG_DFL

	As you can see, the lack of a file (/export/pasiphae/status.txt)
caused the generation of a segmentation violation.  Here are the applicable
files and line numbers in the source code:
log.c:71:               sfile = fopen("/export/pasiphae/status.txt","w");
util.c:742:                f = fopen("/export/pasiphae/position.txt", "w");
util.c:769:                bullet = fopen("/export/pasiphae/bullet.txt", "a");
util.c:770:                blitz = fopen("/export/pasiphae/blitz.txt", "a");
util.c:771:                standard = fopen("/export/pasiphae/standard.txt", "a"
	Technically, these files are only supposed to exist if USE_APPLET is
defined (From log.c):
#if USE_APPLET
                sfile = fopen("/export/pasiphae/status.txt","w");
#else
                sfile = fopen("status.txt","w");
#endif
	USE_APPLET is defined on line 30 of knightcap.h: 
30:#define USE_APPLET 1
	This needs to be set to zero, and the package recompiled. I just did
so, and it works fine now. 
If anyone wants to create a patchset or add a delta to one of the current 
patches, feel free; I'm interested in seeing what USE_APPLET does in the 
rest of the code before disabling it  (in the port).

Best regards,
Daniel

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