From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: b20: problems in tempnam 30 Nov 1998 01:51:54 -0800 Message-ID: <199811300555.XAA24370.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19981129183755.00b8e640@localhost> To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Henrik Frystyk Nielsen writes: > > I found a somewhat recent reference to same/similar problem in tempnam: > > http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/8225.html > > but that was for b19 - I have certain problems in b20 as well - tempnam > bails out with an argument like this for example: > > const char * dir = "E:\\TEMP/w3c-cache/270"; > tempnam(dir, NULL); > > results in > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x61051acc in _size_of_stack_reserve__ () > It's a bug in newlib's tempnam_r implementations (called by tempnam), where a NULL second arg causes a segmentation violation. I'll send a fix to cygwin folks. Newlib has quite a few of these bugs, so please keep on sending in the bug reports (preferably with test cases as this so we can fix these). Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".