On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > sysintf.o: In function `Get_temp':
> > sysintf.o(.text+0x5fc): the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use
> > `mkstemp'
>
> Ahem. And what do I read in mkstemp's man page? ;-)
>
> Don't use this function, use tmpfile(3) instead. It's betÂ
> ter defined and more portable.
more fun, from glibc documentation:
Older Unix systems did not have the functions just described.
[this includes tmpfile]
Instead they used `mktemp' and `mkstemp'.
so mkstemp is likely more portable.
anyway, if you don't care about identifying that file in /tmp my
guess is that tmpfile is faster.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
