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From: ac387 AT yfn DOT ysu DOT edu (randall williams)
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Subject: Update Re: memory overwriting itself??
Date: 22 Aug 1996 03:55:51 GMT
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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Thanks to those who offered suggestions. I have the problem
narrowed down to the system() call. Specificly, I call
system(string); where string is "DIR >path\tempfile" constructed
from other variables. What happens is after about 11 calls,
it creates a zero size file and my read routine crashes because
it doesn't expect to find an empty file. It does check to see
if the file exists and opened. No files are left open.
The order is: make dir file throught system(), open dirfile,
read dirfile and process, close dirfile when done reading,
and then unlink(dirfile).

I just found this tonight. I will probably try to write some
independent code to reproduce this if I can. Right now I'm
thinking the system call created file isn't being closed properly.
It is the only thing I don't have control over.

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