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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David J. Picard wrote:

>                 int i, buffer[RD_BUFF_SZ];
> 		fflush(fp);
>                 fseek(fp, o, SEEK_SET);
>                 fread(buffer, sizeof(int), sizeof(buffer), fp);
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You've just smashed the stack. Big way. Basically, all your local variables
are junk after that point.

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