[webkit-dev] WebSocket crashes

[Simon Fraser]

On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Simon Fraser wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> 
>> As you might have noticed, the WebSocket tests are crashing on Leopard
>> and Snow Leopard.  I thought for a while that this might be related to
>> my recent move of the WebSocket tests, but looks unrelated.  The
>> crashes started with a patch that flipped off the SVN executable bit
>> for a bunch of files, which also seems unrelated (reverting that
>> change locally also don't seem to make a difference).
>> 
>> Here's a reduced test case:
>> 
>> <script>
>> var ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:1111/');
>> </script>
>> 
>> Just open a local HTML file containing that code and you'll crash
>> WebKit on Snow Leopard (and presumably Leopard as well).  The crash
>> looks like some kind of heap corruption.  At this point, I'd like to
>> hand this off to someone who's more familiar with the WebSockets code.
>> Any volunteers?
> 
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47136>
> 
> People with C++ and x86 assembly skills are encouraged to help out.


The Xcode project was picking up qt/SocketStreamHandle.h in error.

Fixed in http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/69057

You may have to quit and restart Xcode to have it build with the correct header.

Simon