Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Tony Richardson" Subject: Re: mkstemp bug Mail-Copies-To: never Reply-To: sds@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold In-Reply-To: (Tony Richardson's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:41:20 -0500") References: Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Tony Richardson" Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:52:21 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain > * Tony Richardson [2005-04-27 12:41:20 -0500]: > > I'm surprised your example doesn't segfault. My Linux man page says > explicitly that the template should not be a string constant but must > be a character array, i.e. use > > char t1[] = "/tmp/clisp-x-io-XXXXXX"; > char t2[] = "/tmp/clisp-x-io-XXXXXX"; > char t3[] = "/tmp/clisp-x-io-XXXXXX"; > > mkstemp(t1); > mkstemp(t2); > mkstemp(t3); > > instead. that's what I did. I was sloppy in my posting. the strings passed to mkstemp where explicitly allocated with alloca and properly filled. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k The world is coming to an end. Please log off. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/