Re: libc6 bug or stupid programmer

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mozcom.com>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> The following segfaults under libc6, works fine under libc5:
> 
> main() {
>   strtok("test","z");
> }
> 
> Is this a bug in strtok or is that really an invalid way to call strtok?

strtok() modifies the string pointed to by the first argument,
so it's illegal to pass it a pointer to a constant.



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