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Article #5266Re: my two cents
From: Chris Torek
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 04:15
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 04:15
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In article <5812@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David A. Rabson) writes:
>... second edition of K&R ... "[string constants] are no longer
>modifiable, and so may be placed in read-only memory."
>This will cause mktemp() and many, many other things to break.
On the contrary, in practise it causes very little to break. Mktemp()
is in fact the only place I have seen code crash. Callers will have
to write
static char foo[] = "/tmp/abcXXXXXX";
name = mktemp(foo);
rather than simply
name = mktemp("/tmp/abcXXXXXX");
This is inconvenient, but not, I think, too drastic.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: my two cents Keywords: string constant Message-ID: <12892@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 88 04:15:39 GMT References: <5812@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22