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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: mktemp BUG?
In-Reply-To: <326AD788.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> from Ron Bolin at "Oct 20, 96 09:53:12 pm"
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> Can anyone else duplicate this bug?
> #include <stdlib.h>
> char *tmp = mktemp("/tmp/cp.XXXXXX");

Your template string is going to be mapped read-only, and then
mktemp trys to write to it -> core dump.

-Archie

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