On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 21:32:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
But I think that what we need is a function in std.stdio (e.g
tempFile
insteaf of tmpfile) which returns an open File with a randomly
generated
name and gives you access to its name rather than using C's
tmpfile, which
does not give you access to the name and deletes the file on
you when it's
closed.
Right - I overlooked this fact. The bad thing is that you might
even be forced to close the file before another program can open
it, if either of the programs wants to open it exclusively
(probably most likely to happen on Windows).