tmpnam() core dumping

[Bill Ahlbrandt]

Great!  I get it now.  Thanks for all of the input/help!

-----Original Message-----
From:	Marc Lehmann [SMTP:pcg@goof.com]
Sent:	Friday, December 12, 1997 11:01 AM
To:	egcs@cygnus.com
Subject:	Re: tmpnam() core dumping

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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