%% Reid Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Also, it might be a Good Thing to try to integrate the temporary file
>> with the ^C handling in GNU make so that the temp file was removed even
>> if the user used ^C. And, any creation of temp files needs to be
>> hardened to avoid DOS, etc. attacks.
rm> I thought of this too. If you give me some pointers, I'll try to
rm> prototype it.
For the latter, there's an open_tmpfile() function in main.c which
should do what you want; hopefully the interface is sufficient (see its
use in main.c as well).
For the former, I don't have any brainstorms; the "current" temp file
names will just have to be kept somewhere, I guess.
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