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Date:      	25 Apr 1998 15:05:08 +0200
From:      Walter Hafner <hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is signal 11?
Message-ID:  <srj1zumdpbv.fsf@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: David Greenman's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:05:59 -0700"
References:  <199804251205.FAA14935@implode.root.com>

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David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:

> >What is signal 11 and dose it indicate a problem with the CGI
> >program checkc.cgi? I'm running FBSD 2.2.5R.
> 
>    A signal 11 is a "Segmentation Violation", which for x86 is actually a
> reference to unmapped virtual memory - or in other words, an unresolvable
> page fault. The most common cause is a programming error involving a bad
> pointer dereference.

Somehow the words "General Protection Failure" are suddenly floating
through my mind ... :-)

-Walter

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