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Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?



On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:33:25PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:

> <rant>
> Personally, I'd rather see a better set of tools for programmers to use to
> create temporary files.  tmpfile(3) is horribly inadequade for a lot of
> things (like when you need to know the filename of the file you just
> created)

mkstemp(3)

> , and I have yet to see a good interface for securely creating
> directories.
> </rant>

mkdtemp(3)

-- 
 - mdz



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