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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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