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From: "Steven Smith" <sos22@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: problem in open sys call
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:35:11 +0100
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> I have a small prblem i the open call. it fails every time and I dont=20
> know why.

> const char opcode[]=3D"opcode.sheet";
>=20
> main()
> {
> 	char buff[8192],temp[10],bin=3D0,opcode[3];
Umm... did you mean to hide the global opcode behind a local which
never gets initialised?

Also, you may want to look at the man pages for:

errno(3)
err(3)
strerror(3)
gdb(1)
strace(1)

Steven Smith.

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