Kaj Hejer wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> When I try to index the document on
> http://www.nettinfo.no/fly/utstillingene/nordre/bell.html with swich-e 1.1
> I get a core dump.
> 
> I use Linux 2.0.28 and gcc 2.7.2.
> 
> The command I use is:
> 
> $ swish-e -f index.swish -i fly/utstillingene/nordre/bell.html
> 
> Checking file "fly/utstillingene/nordre/bell.html"...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I tried saving your document and using the same command on a Sun system 
running Solaris 2.4 (swish compiled with Sun's C compiler). It dumped core
as well, so it's not system-specific.

The traceback from my dump (after I recompiled swish with the "strip" 
command in the makefile commented out :-) was

_etext(0xfffc468c,0x3b978,0x0,0x7efefeff,0x81010100,0xff0000) + 100c0
getMeta(0xefffc4bc,0x4f520,0x1,0x5,0x7,0x62c25) + 88
countwords(0x62598,0x62b50,0x0,0xefffcd00,0x2f,0xb) + 7b0
printfiles(0x62580,0x56c24,0xefffcd90,0x69730000,0x6973,0x3c) + e8
indexafile(0x62550,0x62550,0x4,0xefffd1c8,0x2,0x1e) + 460
main(0x5,0xeffff9ec,0xeffffa04,0x4d000,0x0,0x0) + 1674

getMeta() takes only one argument, the others in the traceback are not real 
arguments; the argument was the string "!-- metainfo start --".

The swish-e manual mentions <!--META START...> and <!--META END..>, but does
not explain how they are used. Does anyone know how "meta start"/"meta end"
comments are meant to be used?

It looks as if maybe the intended usage is

<!--meta start name="WHATEVER" -->
Part of the document text - all the words will be treated as values of 
the WHATEVER meta tag.
<!--meta stop -->

Your HTML document contains "<!-- metainfo start -->" rather than 
"<!--meta start ...", but it looks as if swish-e is very careless in its 
input-parsing - it just checks that "META" and "START" (case-insensitive) 
occur anywhere in the line (and in any order!!) and assumes it is a META
START tag, then expects to find NAME="thetagname" (with or without "s, with
or without spaces around the "=") somewhere (anywhere!) in the line. It 
looks like 

<!--starting a name = "somethingverysilly" is very metallic -->

would be interpreted as equivalent to 

<!--meta start name="somethingverysilly" -->

[Whenever I have to dig around in swish[-e], I'm amazed it works at all 
since it seems to be full of very sloppy coding like this - but when it 
works, it's good!]

I am not sure quite what it is doing to cause the core dump, but it looks as 
if you do not need META START/META END (and the core dump does not happen if 
those lines are deleted). You have "real" <META> tags, so you do not need
the special comments, which appear to tell swish-e that the part of the 
document between those comments comprises words to be treated as values of 
the meta name specified on the START line.

Note that you need a configuration file definition "metanames desription 
keywords" or else swish-e will either give an error when it sees the <meta> 
tags or treat their content as normal words, depending on whether you have 
OKNOMETA set true or false in config.h.

                                John Line
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