[tor-relays] Testers needed for Nyx beta release

Andrew Deason adeason at dson.org
Mon Nov 6 03:36:53 UTC 2017


On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:42:43 -0500
grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> > OSError: [Errno 14] Bad address
> 
>      14 EFAULT Bad address.  The system detected an invalid address in
>              attempting to use an argument of a call.

That's the general definition of EFAULT, yes. A more helpful definition
is from getenv(3):

ERRORS
[...]
     [EFAULT]		The functions setenv(),	unsetenv() or putenv() failed
			to make	a valid	copy of	the environment	due to the
			environment being corrupt (i.e., a name	without	a
			value).	 A warning will	be output to stderr with
			information about the issue.

> > I'm not sure if it's clear, but this is FreeBSD complaining that the
> > environment string is invalid (an entry is missing the '=' separating
> > the name and value).
> 
> No, os.putenv is a two argument python function and is correct
> as shown above.

I didn't say otherwise. FreeBSD will return an EFAULT error if the
environment string for the process is malformed at the time of the
putenv. You can see the logic for this here:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c

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Andrew Deason
adeason at dson.org



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