Hi Alberto, Alberto Barbati wrote:
Hi,IIRC functions like this are considered a bad idea. They are subject to race conditions and a potential security problem.
first of all, I want to thank Beman Dawes and all others that
contributed with the design and development of the Filesystem library. It's a wonderful piece of work.
I just would like to propose a couple of additions that I believe are very useful. Both features regard temporary files.
First proposal: I propose to add a function with a signature of this kind:
path generate_path_for_temp_file();
I agree with you, that the functionality would be really helpfull. The usual solution to the race condition problem would be to have a function that returns a stream. See mkstemp on POSIX. Win32 has a similar facility.
Thomas
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