On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Denver Gingerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-17 19:20]: >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [...] >> >> Secondly, the manpage for mkstemp has the following note: "Don't use >> >> this function, use tmpfile(3) instead.". >> > >> > What manpage do you have there? At least this is not the >> > case in the posix manuals I have. >> >> This line can be found in the NOTES section of the mkstemp(3) manpage >> on Debian 4.0 or Ubuntu 7.10. > > Ah I see, this is not mentioned in the posix (3p) however. > Anyway both functions should be fine at least for the use in > Debian.
As long as /tmp is generally writable by any user on a Debian system, mkstemp should be fine. I suspect the portability concerns expressed by the mkstemp manpage author are referring primarily to the need to explicitly specify a path for mkstemp, which tmpfile does not require. I will have to do some further work on portability when I implement mkstemp in 0.6. I'll probably follow the model used by glibc expressed in the tmpfile manpage: "Glibc will try the path prefix P_tmpdir defined in <stdio.h>, and if that fails the directory /tmp". Denver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
