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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu>
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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jmacd@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: mktemp() sucks, why not fix it? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:35:25 MST."
             <199601122135.OAA20866@phaeton.artisoft.com> 
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:43:55 -0800
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> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, that my strings were not writable misses the point.
> > That was my contrived example to illustrate the real problem,
> > which is not addressed by what you wrote.
> > 
> > Say that I malloced those segments and reread my message, that
> > wasn't the problem.  I was calling mktemp on heap allocated
> > memory segments in my program when I stumbled upon this problem.
> 
> mktemp() creates a file name.
> 
> mktemp() does not create a file.
> 
> mktemp() will "uniquify" the file name between calls only if the
> file exists (from the error returns in the man page, you can see
> it stats the target).
> 
> 
> Probably you want to use the tmpfile() interface instead of
> reimplementing its functionality anyway.
> 
> 
> 
>                                       Terry Lambert
>                                       terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

Except I need to make symlinks as well as real files, depending
on certain conditions.  Directories as well..  I have modified
the source and am including it in my program.  

-josh