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Old 23rd August 2010
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Originally Posted by whomever View Post
I was under the impression that segfaults indicated buffer overflows and thus were extremely unlikely in an OS as secure as openBSD...
No, segmentation faults are the result of the process/thread attempting to access an address which isn't in its address space.

I have seen a few comments on the misc@ indicating that others have had oddities occur with amd64 snapshots from today. You may want to watch the ftp site(s) for a newer snapshot.
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