stat(), lstat() again.

[Steve Dyer]

In article <3422 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim at jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
]Well... if I do the following, lstat() doesn't work:
]	struct stat *sbuf;
]	lstat("/unix", sbuf);
]But this DOES:
]	struct stat sbuf;
]	lstat("/unix", &sbuf);
]
]It looks like in case #1, sbuf is pointing somewhere dangerous and when lstat
]is called, memory is destroyed... 

OK, so where's the bug?  You've not understood the C language.
Just where do you think sbuf is pointing to in the first example?
If you don't assign a value to a variable, how can you expect to
use its value as something meaningful?

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