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Max Okumoto <okumoto@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> If I use mkdtemp(), there is a chance that someone with the
> same UID could race to build the fifo. Do we care about
> races with ourselves?  Or am I just being toooo paranoid? :-)

Are you sure? mkdtemp() generates a "random" name like mkstemp() does, so the
race would have existed already before (but the probability is very low that
two make instances generate the same name)...

Bye,
Alexander.

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