From: Bill Ahlbrandt <bahlbr@icdata.com>
To: "'egcs@cygnus.com'" <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: tmpnam() core dumping
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01BD07BD.B6016500@bill.icdata.com> (raw)
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Great! I get it now. Thanks for all of the input/help!
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Lehmann [SMTP:pcg@goof.com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 1997 11:01 AM
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: tmpnam() core dumping
On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 08:13:46AM -0600, Bill Ahlbrandt wrote:
> I am getting a core dump when I use the tmpnam() function.
RTM, you are calling
tmpnam("xxx"),
and tmpnam tries to overwrite the memory you gave to it (which
is a constant string which is in a readonly section), thus
you get a segmentation fault.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-13 9:55 Bill Ahlbrandt [this message]
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1997-12-15 8:20 Bill Ahlbrandt
1997-12-12 10:18 Bill Ahlbrandt
1997-12-12 13:04 ` Per Bothner
1997-12-12 15:46 ` Tim Hollebeek
1997-12-15 2:51 ` Andreas Schwab
1997-12-12 6:18 Bill Ahlbrandt
1997-12-12 8:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-12 14:32 ` Marc Lehmann
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