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Subject: Re: mkstemp bug
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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
In-Reply-To: <d4oilk$onv$1@sea.gmane.org> (Tony Richardson's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:41:20 -0500")
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:52:21 -0400
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> * Tony Richardson <evpuneqfba AT rinafivyyr DOT rqh> [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.

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