[Libwebsockets] Segfault after doing lws_ring_insert

[prelag at yahoo.com]

Thank you sir!

Am I supposed to set msg->first and msg->final?  If so, what are those set to?

Thanks

Paul R.



On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 02:48:46 PM EDT, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote: 







On 8/5/20 7:37 PM, prelag at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks in advance!  I know this is something simple I am overlooking.
> 
> I have a test program based on the client echo example.  I am attempting to create a message and insert it into the ring_buffer to get picked up on the next LWS_CALLBACK_CLIENT_WRITEABLE.
> 
> Here is my simple function that is called when a message is ready to be put in the buffer:
> 
> void MyClass::sendResponse(string &response) {
>      syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "MyClass::sendResponse %s", response.c_str());
> 
> 
>      int len = strlen(response.c_str() + LWS_PRE);
> 
> 
>      msg3.payload = malloc(len);

You're writing beyond what you allocated-->


> 
>      memcpy((char *) msg3.payload + LWS_PRE, response.c_str(), len);


None of that is any lws issue.

-Andy