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From: ott@guug.guug.de (Joachim Ott Munich-Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strcpy on SysV vs. BSD.
Summary: use lint
Message-ID: <140@guug.guug.de>
Date: 2 Sep 90 23:48:08 GMT
References: <24351@adm.BRL.MIL>
Sender: ott@guug.guug.de (Joachim Ott Munich-Germany)
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In article <24351@adm.BRL.MIL>, hsw@sparta.com (Howard Weiss) writes:
> ...
> main(){
>   char *TTx = "/dev/";
>   char tty[10]; /* works on both SysV and BSD */
> /*  char *tty;	/* works only on BSD */
> 
> ...

As Greg Hunt already said, the pointer 'char *tty' contains a random-
value. lint would have said 'warning: tty may be used before set'.
Obviously you do not use lint, try do it from now on.

Joachim Ott	ott@guug.guug.de