[TUHS] v7, adb, and fcreat

[Will Senn]

I've done research on this, but I'm confused and would appreciate some 
help to understand what's going on. In the 7th edition manual, vol 2, 
there's an ADB tutorial (pp. 323-336). In the tutorial, the authors, 
Maranzano and Bourne, walk the reader through a debugging session. The 
first example is predicated on a buffer overflow bug and the code includes:

struct buf {
int fildes;
int nleft;
char *nextp; char buff[512]; }bb;
struct buf *obuf;

...
if((fcreat(argv[1],obuf)) < 0){
...

Well, this isn't v7 code. As discussed in the v7 manual vol 1 (p. VII):

Standard I/O. The old fopen, getc, putc complex and the old –lp package 
are both dead, and even getchar has changed. All have been replaced by 
the clean, highly efficient, stdio(3) package. The first things to know 
are that getchar(3) returns the integer EOF (–1), which is not a 
possible byte value, on end of file, that 518-byte buffers are out, and 
that there is a defined FILE data type.

The buffers are out, fcreat is gone, etc. So, what's up with this? I 
don't think adb was in v6, where the fcreat function and buf struct are 
used... Were Maranzano and Bourne using some kind of hybrid 6+ system?

Thanks,

Will

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