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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU, nate@sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: mktemp() sucks, why not fix it?
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>Sorry, that my strings were not writable misses the point.

Completely.  They were writable...

You're probably asking for too much.  The corresponding (even more
brain damaged) stdio functions can't be expected to work for
anything except regular files since stdio only supports creating
regular files.

Bruce