Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:16:48 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: kedron@tribe.com (Kedron Wolcott) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5 mktemp bug. Message-ID: <9510271716.AA23164@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510271707.KAA08844@tribe.com> References: <199510271707.KAA08844@tribe.com>
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<<On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:07:51 -0700, kedron@tribe.com (Kedron Wolcott) said:
> However, I do think this is a bug. The program
> ---------
> #include <unistd.h>
> void
> main ( void )
> {
> mktemp( "/tmp/tmp.XXXX" );
> }
> ---------
Your program is wrong. String literals are not modifiable. The
correct code is as follows:
int /* NB: not void */
main(void)
{
char name[] = "/tmp/tmp.XXXX";
mktemp(name); /* NB: using modifiable array, not a literal */
return 0;
}
-GAWollman
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