On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:20:21PM +0100, Daouda LO wrote:
> Yes the only constraints to use mkstemp is that the last 6 characters
> of the target file should end with XXXXXX (to ensure the temporary
> file will be unique).  I double checked this. Besides this, the patch
> was stolen from Redhat :p

That and the mktemp function returns the file name.   While the mkstemp
returns the file descriptor.  Making switching any program using it to
be a non-trivial situation.  Because without changing the program you
will run into a double open situation.

But I would presume RedHat knows this.

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