From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:30:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault git read-tree
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803132127281.3557@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803132125280.3557@woody.linux-foundation.org>



On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok, I can reproduce this, I'm on it like a maggot on a two-week-dead baby 
> donkey.

Ooh, interesting. Compiling with debugging makes the SIGSEGV go away, and 
replaces it with an endless loop.

The SIGSEGV when non-debugging seems to be due to a corrupt "info->prev" 
pointer chain, but this was less obvious than I hoped it would be.

Still looking.

		Linus