From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: tmpnam() core dumping
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <19971212180102.21700@cerebro.laendle>
References: <01BD06D5.E1EF50C0@bill.icdata.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00768.html

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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