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I may have found a linux system library bug.

The following program causes a segmentation fault on my system:
Linux SLS 1.03 w/ patch .13 applied on a generic 16MB 486 w/ SCSI disk.

main()
{
mktemp("mktempXXXXXX");

Quote:}

the following output from gdb 'bt' command:

#0  0x33e5 in xsputn__9streambufPCci ()
#1  0x34d7 in padn__9streambufci (-1073743264, 48, 1)
#2  0x2400 in vform__9streambufPCcPv ()
#3  0xf27 in vsprintf ()
#4  0xed8 in sprintf ()
#5  0x21b in mktemp ()
#6  0x5858706d in _end ()

I hope that this problem is not a faq. I am using the gcc that comes with
SLS 1.03 (2.4.5?).

hope this helps someone,

Yermo Lamers

Quote:

>I may have found a linux system library bug.

>The following program causes a segmentation fault on my system:
>Linux SLS 1.03 w/ patch .13 applied on a generic 16MB 486 w/ SCSI disk.

>main()
>{
>mktemp("mktempXXXXXX");
>}

Nothing of the sort. You've found an 'I don't understand some of the more
suprising features of C' effect.

A string in quotes is a constant string. You can't change it and Linux
unlike DOS knows this! Do it properly with

main()
{
        static char temp[]="mktempXXXXXX";
        mktemp(temp);

Quote:}

Alan