Thread: SIGSEGV with strcpy and shared memroy

Hi All,

I am trying to read from the file and then copy to the shared memory.

While doing strcpy i get SIGSEGV.

Can any body can help here like what is the root cuase of the issue?

Code:

#include<sys/ipc.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include<sys/shm.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
  int k,shmid;
  void *data;
  FILE *fp;
  char *ptr;

  ptr = calloc(20,1);
  memset(ptr,20,0);
  k=ftok(".",20);
  shmid=shmget(k, 1000, 0);


  data=shmat(shmid,(void*)0,0);

  fp = fopen(argv[1],"r");
  fread(ptr,1,10,fp);
  strcpy((char *)data,ptr);


  fclose(fp);

  exit(0);
}

You need to check the return values of the functions. Doing so shows that shmat is failing due to permissions.

This is because you didn't pass any permissions to shmget. Something like:

Code:

shmid=shmget(k, 1000, IPC_CREAT | 0666);

From the terminal, type ipcs -m and look for a shared memory segment with 1000 bytes. This is the segment you created; it isn't deleted when the program exits. Note the perms; 0 means no access permission at all.

Note the shmid and type ipcrm shm 12345 (where 12345 is the shmid you noted). This deletes the resource so you can create it anew with proper permissions.

Thanks salem and algorism.

I just overlooked the creation part of the shm.Its actually like reader would create and wirter would use it.
In this case i was runing writer first. So no creation of the shm at all..