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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: mktemp() crashes
References: <1993Oct21.120854.2900@zen.void.oz.au>> <JKH.93Oct25234522@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Oct27.140344.16100@zen.void.oz.au>
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In article <1993Oct27.140344.16100@zen.void.oz.au> sjg@zen.void.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) writes:
>Sorry... stick to -traditional or fix all your programs that call
>mktemp("/tmp/fooXXXX")

You don't need go as far as -traditional.  -fwritable-strings should
do it.

-- Richard
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