[CentOS] Re: Segmentation fault YUM

Mon Sep 17 13:10:22 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

umair shakil wrote:
> I can right now define "Segmentation Fault"
> When a process is trying to exceed the memroy location of what allocated 
> to it, we normally face in this case "segmentation fault".

That is not correct. a segfault is when a process will try to access 
memory that its not authorised to, eg. trying to write to memory marked 
read-only is the classic case.