Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:32:21 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: mktemp BUG? Message-ID: <9610211432.AA13540@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <326AD788.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> References: <326AD788.167EB0E7@mindspring.com>
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<<On Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:53:12 -0400, Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> said:
> Just checking my system and sanity. The mktemp(char *) function
> dumps core everytime. Seems to be a problem in the C lib version.
> Can anyone else duplicate this bug?
> #include <stdlib.h>
> char *tmp = mktemp("/tmp/cp.XXXXXX");
Your code is erroneous. You cannot overwrite a string literal.
#include <stdlib.h>
void foo(void) {
static char path[] = "/tmp/cp.XXXXXX";
if (mktemp(path)) {
/* do something with it */
}
}
-GAWollman
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