A segmentation fault, or segfault, is a memory error in which a program tries to access a memory address that does not exist or the program does not have the rights ...

I was hoping some of you who know more on this topic than I might be able to help me out.<BR><BR>I'm running some code (CFD code) on a Unix machine (technically part of a cluster, but I don't think ...

Segmentation faults can also be returned by the kernel if the kernel suffers an oops while handling the system call. Given that ifconfig isn't much more than a wrapper around a bunch of system calls ...