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!!!Bad Address
-This happens when you call a kernel syscall, and provide it with a pointer that points outside your address space. Tsk Tsk.
+This happens when you call a kernel syscall, and provide it with a pointer that points outside your address space. Tsk Tsk. You should check your pointers are properly initialised.
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+If you get this after doing a fork(2) followed by an execl(3) or execlp(3), make sure you remembered to NULL-terminate the list of arguments..
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