[gnuastro-devel] [bug #55478] Memory mapping creates crash when .gnuastro is not writable

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
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                 Summary: Memory mapping creates crash when .gnuastro is not
writable
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Tue 15 Jan 2019 12:59:45 AM UTC
                Category: All Gnuastro
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: In Progress
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: makhlaghi
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

When a program needs to create a file for memory-mapping an array (not using
any RAM for a dataset), it creates a file in a hidden `.gnuastro' directory.
So when this directory cannot be opened, the program crashes.

This bug was reported by Raúl Infante Sainz.




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