[UPHPU] segmentation fault in PHP 5 and Pear

[Dave Smith]

Richard K. Miller wrote:

>> You should never, ever, ever, ... ever, ever, ever see a segmentation
>> fault in PHP. If you do, it's a bug in the PHP interpreter itself (C
>> code), and you should report it on bugs.php.net. No PHP code should  
>> ever
>> be able to produce a segmentation fault.
>>
>
> Is this because PHP code (as an interpreted language?) doesn't have  
> the ability to directly access memory?  That makes sense.
>
> In my case, could it be MySQL that's bad?  Could it be PEAR?  (Does  
> PEAR have any C code?)
>
> If not, I'll try to get another build of PHP5 and try it.


Actually, the truth is that no program *should* ever seg-fault, ever. If 
it does, it's a bug. Period. It means someone did something bad in 
memory somewhere that they shouldn't have been. However, in theory, no 
PHP code should ever be capable of producing a seg-fault.

In my days, I've run into a couple cases where I could make PHP 
seg-fault, and I managed to trace it down to a buggy function. 
ldap_explode_dn() in my case (coincidence, eh?). I recommend you poke 
around until you can create a minimal PHP script that seg-faults every 
time. Then, report back.

--Dave