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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: Perl scripts that need rewiting - Any volunteers?
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On (2002/06/25 10:20), Mark Murray wrote:

> How's this?
> 
> int handle;
> template = "/tmp/mumbleXXXXXXXX";
> char *cmd;
> handle = mkstemp(template); // template is modified
> asprintf(cmd, "prog > %s", template);
> system(cmd);
> close(handle); // bye-bye file

It would be failsafe if you tested that mkstemp() had not returned an
error.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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