strcat segmentation fault

Question

The second call to strcat here is generating a segmentation fault, why?

#include <unistd.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>  
#include <pthread.h>

int main (int argc, char * argv[])
{
         char command[250];

         //if(scanf("%199s", command) == 1)

            gets(command);
            puts(command);

         int pipeIntId; 

         char whitespaceseparator[2]=" ";

         char pidstring [30];

         int pid= getpid(); 

         sprintf(pidstring,"%d", pid);

         char * whitespace_and_pid;

         whitespace_and_pid = strcat(whitespaceseparator,pidstring);  


         char * command_and_pid; 

         command_and_pid=strcat(command,whitespace_and_pid); // here's the problem, I guess


          if((mkfifo("pipe"/*pipeName*/,0666))==-1) 
          {
              perror("error creating pipe 1");
          exit(1);
          }

         if((pipeIntId=open("pipe",/*pipeName*/O_WRONLY))==-1)
         {
          perror("error creating pipe 2");
          exit(1);
         }


         int written;

         written=write(pipeIntId,command_and_pid,250); // send the command + the pid


         close(pipeIntId);

    return 0;
}

Answer 1

Your gets call could have added sufficient characters already to cause undefined behavior at about anytime.