Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 22:20:31 -0600 (CST)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: where to find the header f
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO
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>This is very dangerous!  Your program is linking in the DJGPP
>version of mkdir, which expects ( char*, int, int ), and passing it
>( char * ).  Fortunately, this doesn't appear to result in any serious
>problems in your program, but it is a surefire guarantee of
>crashes if done too often.

it's (char *, int), not (char *, int, int).  Anyway, this is perfectly safe;
the second argument is meaningless under DOS and hence ignored, and DJGPP
uses the C calling convention, in which the caller pops arguments, so the
stack cannot be messed up.

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