heloo,

I am new to prgramming in c and I came across the mmap function and decide to see how it works by writing a smal piece of code.
{
void *ptr=0;
int size,stat;
size=getpagesize();
ptr=mmap(0,2,PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,213,size) ;
stat=munmap(ptr,2);
printf("%d",stat);
}
as expected(?), i get a seg fault.
I run gdb and it says:
program recieved SIGSEGV...blah blah,
0x40068f73 in vfprintf() from /lib/libc.so.6 <-------(what does this mean)

how do I interpret such messages.I tried 'info gdb' and found it more cryptic than the debug messages themselves.
soory for the long message,
help anyone?

Try
gdb programfilename core

At the prompt type

ba

this will show you a stack dump

0x40068f73 in vfprintf() from /lib/libc.so.6

means the error occurred in module vrpintf() which was dynamically linked in from the shared library libc

If you want to learn gdb -

try man gdb to see how to start it up
Then when running gdb, type
help
there is extensive help, good enough to let you learn how to you use the program effectively.

thanks alot o god's gift to earth.mind if i nominate you for the nobel in 2100;-)