From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T02:09:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault, proc, eval, long string

On 11/30/06, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a 'Segmentation fault' in ruby 1.8.5 running on debian in
> a Xen VPS. The same code running on OS X and a different version of
> linux has no problems.
>
> The process to get this is maybe a little strange.
>
> 1) read a large file into a string (1.3MB)
> 2) eval the string (the string is a single ruby proc definition that
> when called will build an object structure in memory)
> 3) call the proc --> Segmentation fault *very* soon after
>

Hrm. This looks similar to the problem reported here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/80435