[vlc-devel] rtp streaming---recv returns segfault

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Saturday 29 September 2007 09:24:18 Anand Anand, vous avez écrit :
> i then tried to receive packets by doing the following:
> /*
> p_block->i_buffer = recv(fd, p_block->p_buffer, i_mtu, 0 ) ;
> */
>
> but a segfault occurs at the recv call..

First, recv() CANNOT crash on Linux. System calls don't crash; they return an 
EFAULT error instead.

Second, you most obviously did not allocate p_block properly:
	p_block = block_New( p_this, i_mtu );

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