Major league corruption - anyone seen anything like this?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> Obviously I have some serious problems in what was supposed to be a simple
> wrapper (perhaps the problems are with the underlying library which has only
> been lightly tested), but I've never seen a segfault take files with it like
> this.  Has anybody else encountered this before?

I sure did; it turned out to be a memory error. Replacing the faulty
chip brought everything to normal again.

Regards,
Martin