Charles-François Natali added the comment:

>> I'll wait a little before removing O_NOFOLLOW
>
> I don't know this flag. What is its effect of the directory part of the path? 
> Does it change anything if the directory is a symbolic link?

No, it only has an effect if the target file is a symlink.
FWIW, glibc's mkstemp() implementation doesn't use it.

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