In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:

> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:30:22 -0500
> 
> mkstemp is insecure on older Linux systems (creates world-writable files,
> according to the man-page).
> 
Does it even overrule the setting of "umask" to do so?

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