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From: cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why does mkstemp() core dump on me?   rewind()ing stdin...
Message-ID: <16644@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 90 23:17:59 GMT
References: <2626@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <2626@ux.acs.umn.edu> edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) writes:
[...]
>	char	*template = ".psoptfXXXXXX";
[...]
>/* THE FOLLOWING LINE CORE DUMPS */
>		if ((tmp = mkstemp(template)) < 0) {
[...]

String constants may not be writable.  Try:
	char	template[] = ".psoptfXXXXXX";
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Ray Spalding, Technical Services, Office of Information Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0715
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