I have a program which goes through the directory structure and concatenates the files present in the path to szFile . I have used dirent here to get the directory entries. It is dumping core in the strcat function inside the for loop only in SunOS . It goes through fine in HP and AIX machine .
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main()
{
DIR *pDirHand;
char szFile[1024];
struct dirent pdirent ;
struct dirent *pResult = NULL;
char *sDir = "fullpath"; /* fullpath can be /make/users/path */
strncpy (szFile, sDir, sizeof(szFile)-1);
szFile[sizeof(szFile)-1] = '\0';
if (NULL == (pDirHand = opendir(szFile)))
{
return -1;
}
for(readdir_r(pDirHand, &pdirent, &pResult); pResult != 0;readdir_r(pDirHand, &pdirent, &pResult))
{
FILE *fp;
fp=fopen("debug.log","a+");
strcpy (szFile, sDir);
strcat (szFile, "/");
strcat (szFile, pdirent.d_name);
}
if (pDirHand) closedir (pDirHand);
return 0;
}
I dont have any files currently in the path that I assign to sDir. It has "." and ".." directory entries in it but I get a core dump in the line
strcat (szFile, pdirent.d_name);
I had used dbx to find out the value of szFile , during the second iteration the value is exceeding the memory allocated for it . The value comes as
"fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/..fullpath/..fullpath/../../../../../../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/..fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/../fullpath/.." ...
I have tried using strlcat , but the concatinated value of szFile is not coming properly. Anybody faced this problem in SunOS or can help ?