[OCLUG-devel] fopen doesn't like my path

[Michael Elkins]

You'll likely need to post the code snippet your using in order for us
to determine what the exact issue is.  Nothing in your description
seems incorrect.

Michael

On 11/20/05, Doug Jolley <ddjolley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using fopen to open two different files.  In the first case (which
> works just fine), I simply define the path to the file as 'char
> path2file[]="/path/to/file"'.  I then use path2file as the first argument to
> fopen.  In the second case (which doesn't work so well), I extract the path
> to the file from colon-delimited data contained in a string using strtok.
> IOW, I use the  following 'path=strtok(NULL,":")'.  I use NULL here because
> I have previously extracted other tokens and the path is the next token to
> be extracted.  I inserted a printf statement to print 'path' and it does in
> fact point to the correct data.  However, when I put 'path' as the first
> argument to fopen, I get a segmentation fault.  If I replace the 'path'
> argument to fopen with the actual correct path to the file (by just
> including the actual string enclosed in double quotes), it works just fine.
> So, it certainly appears that fopen doesn't like my path pointer which was
> derived from strtok; but, I have absolutely no idea why.  Can anyone help me
> out?  Thanks for any input.
>
>          ... doug
>
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