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From: alweiner@clark.net (Alan Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Major bug? (probably programmer error :)
Date: 4 Sep 1995 18:07:18 GMT
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#include "stdlib.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
struct
{
char buf[6];
} b;
void main()
{
int fd;
strcpy(b.buf,"hello");
fd=open("test.txt",O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
write(fd,&b,sizeof(b));
lseek(fd,-1L*sizeof(b),1);
write(fd,&b,sizeof(b));
close(fd);
system("ls -l test.txt\n");
}
Try running the following program on your BSDI system. I think you'll be
supprized at the resulting test.txt.
Am I doing something illegal here?
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