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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:23:48 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: seg fault on file write in cygwin, please help!!!
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:35:46PM -0500, scyudits wrote:
> FILE *outfile = fopen("/home/Sophia/ns-allinone-2.27/ns-2.27/myfile.tcl", "w");

     check here if fopen failed (outfile will be NULL)

> fprintf(outfile, "%s", output);
> 
> ...where output is a regular string (character array). 

A string is not a character array.  A string is a null-terminated
sequence of characters.  Does output have a null character at the end?

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