My latest app, is a forking TCP server/client. It runs fine and does its thing. So I put it into a shell loop, and every once in a while I see it die (near or at the end of processing where its exiting) and say:

"Segmentation fault"

My guess is its happening after my app says exit, and Perl is doing its clean up. But I'd rather never see the error message. ISTR that this isn't the first app of mine that randomly emits this message on shutdown, but this time around its anoying me. How can I find out where/why its dying?

B.T.W. perl -v says: "This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi"

In reply to what causes a segmentation violation by fhew

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