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- From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: mail: Segmentation fault
- Message-ID: <Bz3poo.23K@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 15:29:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.055826.19953@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec11.120053.20679@aston.ac.uk>
- Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec11.120053.20679@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
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- >in fact the problem is in the mktemp() routine in libc.
- >and is 'fixed' by compiling with -fwritable-strings
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- If this is true, then I'm confused: getty_ps also uses the mktemp()
- routine, and has no problems under pl6 without writable-strings.
-
- Is there something else you have to do in conjunction with mktemp() to
- expose the bug?
-
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- Steve Robbins -- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
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