Hi,

i made server program in c on linux, accepting portno as argument, and i made client program on same architecture accepting hostname & portno as arguments, but when i run client on same machime in which i ran server, it is giving error " Segmentation fault".

why????????????

There's an error on line 42.

Hi Hivemind,

error on line 42, i m not getting

The point I was trying to make was that there was not nearly enough information
in your post to help. You didn't post a single line of code. How are we supposed
to know what the problem is then?

I suggest that you create the simplest possible, but still complete and compilable,
test program that exhibits the error and post it here enclosed in code tags.

But first you should step through the crashing program with a debugger, monitoring
every variable that is in scope. Identify the line that makes it crash and at least
post that line along with the definitions of the variables being used in it.

A segmentation fault most likely means that you are tampering with memory that is not yours to tamper with. Maybe you're trying to use a pointer that is not yet pointing to memory you are allowed to read/write. Since you seem so stumped by a segmentation fault I get the feeling that
your grasp of the core C language is poor and you should probably master it to a higher
degree before starting to use networking libraries and other platform specific stuff.

Also, make sure you turn all warnings on, that could help you find the problems faster.

Hi,
Actually i m fresher working for IT Dept, & developing a client-server application.

Now i m writing key lines that clears program purpose, & i think u can make out some points from below lines: Client.c


struct sockaddr_in serv_addr ;

struct hostent *server ;

char buffer[256] = " " ;

portno = atoi( argv[2] ) ;

sockfd = socket( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ) ;

server = gethostbyname( argv[1] ) ;

serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET ;

bcopy( (char*)server->h_addr, (char*)serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr, server->h_length ) ;

serv_addr.sin_port = htons( portno ) ;

if( connect( sockfd, ( struct sockaddr*)&serv_addr, sizeof( serv_addr )) < 0 )
error( "ERROR connecting" ) ;

fgets( buffer, 255, stdin ) ;

n = write( sockfd, buffer, strlen( buffer )) ;

n = read( sockfd, buffer, 255 ) ;


I m using gcc compiler on RHEL 2.6 kernel, can u pls tell me how can i debug my program line by line ?

And that's it? It's all your client's code?

sure, there is a debugger called gdb. You will need to look around for help on how to use it (man, google) but you can get a great deal of information from it.

To start you off try here

enjoy.

HI,

i have written here only client side code, not server side, bec when i run server no error found, but on running client , segmentation fault comes

First thing i would check is that i actually have 3 arguments passed in from the command line. You access argv[2] are you sure you have that many arguments passed in.

Hi,

yes client has 2 arguments "hostname" & "portno", while server has only one arg "portno", after running server i run client then it gives segmentation fault on client side.

why ??

if you can't find what is causing the trouble by using gdb, use valgrind with the --db-atach=yes flag, and it will dump you in the debugger with a short description of the first illegal memory access.