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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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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"
To: rlb@mindspring.com (Ron Bolin)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:06:24 +1000 (EST)
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Ron Bolin writes:

> 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");

You have two alternatives:

i) fix the problem by copying the const string into an appropriately sized
buffer or ..

ii) avoid the problem by compiling with '-fwritable-strings'

	michael