Re: temp files under C

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> what is the safest way to open/create a temporary file under C, and
> get a string with the filename?

Other posters have given good suggestions.  I'll give one more:
you can safely use mkdir() to create a directory with secure
permissions, because mkdir() will fail if there is an existing
file (or even a symlink) with the given name.  Then you can
safely create any number of temporary files, with arbitrary
convenient names, within the new directory.