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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:54:00 +0200
From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Perl scripts that need rewiting - Any volunteers?
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:46:22PM +0100, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> Mark Murray wrote:
> >o Please do not use mktemp(); use mkstemp() instead.
> 
> I used mktemp() to get a filename to redirect to, eg.
> 
> /* Improvised example */
> char *cmd;
> asprintf(cmd, "prog > %s", mktemp(blah));
> system(cmd);
> free(cmd);
> 
> I couldn't see a simple way around this, any clues?
int fd = mkstemp (blah);
asprintf(cmd, "prog > /dev/fd/%d", fd);

I don't look at the code, but how about popen(3) ?

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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