Dear Karanbir, Please can u please explain me that "trying to exceed the memroy" or "try to gain the memory not authorized" is there making any difference...... OR please i suppose my mistake was "not using google exact defination" :) Regards, Umair Shakil On 9/17/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070918/796aa3e6/attachment-0004.html>