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strdup + fread = fail?
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[QUOTE="Richard Tobin, post: 2864345"] fread() doesn't nul-terminate the data it reads, so you shouldn't call strdup() on it. If the data contains nul characters, you will only copy up to the first one; if it doesn't you will run off the end. For binary data you should use the known length (buf.st_size, assuming the fread() succeeds, which you should check) to allocate space for the copy, and then use memcpy(). -- Richard [/QUOTE]
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