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From: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Why does mkstemp() core dump on me?   rewind()ing stdin...
Message-ID: <2626@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 16:10:43 GMT
Reply-To: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
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I need to read from stdin, determine if the incoming file is postscript and
if not, run it through enscript.  I check the first 2 characters of stdin
for "%!", and then I need to rewind and send the file on to the next step.
I am trying to get mkstemp to create a temporary file for me to hold stdin,
so I can rewind it w/o worrying whether stdin came from a pipe or not, but
it core dumps upon hitting the line containing the call to mkstemp.  Can
anybody see whats wrong here?

		Thanks very much for any help,
			Eric
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|Eric (the "Mentat-Philosopher") Hendrickson	  Academic Computing Services
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#define	ENSCRIPT	"/usr/local/bin/enscript"
#define	FPR		"/usr/local/bin/fpr"
#define	PR		"/usr/bin/pr"
#define	MAGICSIZE	2

prefilter()
{
	char	cmdbuf[BUFSIZ];
	char	mybuf[BUFSIZ];
	char	magic[MAGICSIZE];
	char	*template = ".psoptfXXXXXX";
	int	c, cnt, magiccnt, tmp;
	struct	stat	sbuf;

/* !!! if PostScript file or Format is not one of (f,l,p,r) then return !!! */

	if ((magiccnt = read(fileno(stdin), magic, MAGICSIZE)) < 0) {
		log("bad magic number, EOF");
		return(0);
	}
	sprintf(cmdbuf, "%s -gq -p -", ENSCRIPT);
	(void) fstat(fileno(stdin), &sbuf);
	if ((sbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFREG) { /* pipe! */
/* THE FOLLOWING LINE CORE DUMPS */
		if ((tmp = mkstemp(template)) < 0) {
			log("creating tmp file");
		}
		write(tmp, magic, magiccnt);
		while ((cnt = read(fileno(stdin), mybuf, sizeof mybuf)) > 0) {
			if (write(tmp, mybuf, cnt) != cnt) {
				log("copying tmp file");
			}
		}
		if (cnt < 0) {
			log("copying tmp file");
		}
		close(tmp);
		if (freopen(template, "r", stdin) == NULL) {
			log("opening tmp file");
		}
		unlink(template);
	}
	lseek(0, 0L, 0);
	rewind(stdin);
	if (strncmp(magic, "%!", 2) == 0) { /* is file postscript? */
		while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) {
			putchar(c); 
		}
		return(0);
	}
	switch (*format) {
	    case 'f':
	    case 'l':
		break;
	    case 'p':
		sprintf(cmdbuf, "%s | %s", PR, cmdbuf);
		break;
	    case 'r':
		sprintf(cmdbuf, "%s | %s", FPR, cmdbuf);
		break;
	    default:
		log("Cannot process format %c files", format);
		return(0);
	}
	if (validate_zopts(cmdbuf, zopts)) {
		fatal("Unknown Z options detected");
		return(2);
	}
	system(cmdbuf);
}
-- 
/----------"Oh carrots are divine, you get a dozen for dime, its maaaagic."--
|Eric (the "Mentat-Philosopher") Hendrickson	  Academic Computing Services
|edh@ux.acs.umn.edu	   The game is afoot!	      University of Minnesota
\-"What does 'masochist' and 'amnesia' mean?   Beats me, I don't remember."--