Strcpy on SysV vs. BSD.
Joachim Ott Munich-Germany
ott at guug.guug.de
Mon Sep 3 09:48:08 AEST 1990
In article <24351 at adm.BRL.MIL>, hsw at sparta.com (Howard Weiss) writes:
> ...
> main(){
> char *TTx = "/dev/";
> char tty[10]; /* works on both SysV and BSD */
> /* char *tty; /* works only on BSD */
>
> ...
As Greg Hunt already said, the pointer 'char *tty' contains a random-
value. lint would have said 'warning: tty may be used before set'.
Obviously you do not use lint, try do it from now on.
Joachim Ott ott at guug.guug.de
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