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-rw-r--r--CONTRIBUTORS2
-rw-r--r--HISTORY2
-rw-r--r--receiver.c6
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 85048db7..5be8f412 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3265,3 +3265,5 @@ Mariusz Bialonczyk <manio@skyboo.net>
Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>
for suggesting to add LinkageTypePremiere to libsi/si.h and eit.c to avoid a compiler
warning with Clang 3.4.1
+ for suggesting to replace the NULL pointer assignment in ~cReceiver() to force a
+ segfault with a call to abort()
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 74072c18..18df55ca 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8194,3 +8194,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
- Fixed some compiler warnings with Clang 3.4.1 (reported by Paul Menzel).
- Added LinkageTypePremiere to libsi/si.h and eit.c to avoid a compiler warning with
Clang 3.4.1 (suggested by Tony Houghten).
+- Replaced the NULL pointer assignment in ~cReceiver() to force a segfault with
+ a call to abort() (suggested by Tony Houghten).
diff --git a/receiver.c b/receiver.c
index de5d0aea..a3811003 100644
--- a/receiver.c
+++ b/receiver.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
* how to reach the author.
*
- * $Id: receiver.c 3.1 2014/01/01 12:03:00 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: receiver.c 3.2 2014/02/08 15:57:30 kls Exp $
*/
#include "receiver.h"
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ cReceiver::cReceiver(const cChannel *Channel, int Priority)
cReceiver::~cReceiver()
{
if (device) {
- const char *msg = "ERROR: cReceiver has not been detached yet! This is a design fault and VDR will segfault now!";
+ const char *msg = "ERROR: cReceiver has not been detached yet! This is a design fault and VDR will abort now!";
esyslog("%s", msg);
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg);
- *(char *)0 = 0; // cause a segfault
+ abort();
}
}