my two cents

[Chris Torek]

In article <5812 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
davidra at 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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