>Number: 5253
>Category: other
>Synopsis: Program htpasswd give error: "unable to create temporary file"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 4 09:50:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.6
>Environment:
HP/UX 11.0
HP/UX ANSI C
>Description:
When using htpasswd it always say
"unable to create temporary file"
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I fix the problem into htpasswd.c program with changing point:
tempfilename = tmpnam(NULL);
to
tempfilename = tmpnam(evitmp);
where evitmp is an array and is L_tmpnam byte long.
man tmpnam says in HP/UX 11:
tmpnam() Always generates a file name using the path-prefix
defined as P_tmpdir in the <stdio.h> header file.
If s is NULL, tmpnam() leaves its result in an
internal static area and returns a pointer to that
area. The next call to tmpnam() destroys the
contents of the area. If s is not NULL, it is
assumed to be the address of an array of at least
L_tmpnam bytes, where L_tmpnam is a constant
defined in <stdio.h>; tmpnam() places its result
in that array and returns s. For multi-thread
applications, if s is a NULL pointer, the
operation is not performed and a NULL pointer is
returned.
So the reason is that HP/UX 11 think that this is "multi-thread" application
and need other than NULL in parameter.
Greetings Esko Viitanen
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