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To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Subject: Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp() 
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:01:45 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <39218971.AE6779B5@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes:
: Drat, that's right.  Anyone wanna pollute the kernel and filesystem
: layers with a "reserve this filename" function?  That sounds fugly,
: doesn't it?

Yes.  It isn't needed.  mkstemp already does the looping to make it
safe.

Warner


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