On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:27 +0100, Philip Armstrong wrote:
> The mkstemp manpage on Debian linux suggests that you should use
> tmpfile() instead btw -- You get a FILE * back rather than a file
> descriptor.

Near as I can tell, tmpfile() won't work at all for this case, because
we need to know the filename of the temporary file.  Unless there's a
way to get the filename from a FILE structure?

I'm also not sure why a FILE ptr is necessarily better than a file
descriptor.  Is the f* series of functions a more portable interface?
Perhaps so, at the expense of features, since there seems to be no way
to specify O_EXCL with fopen().

Cheers,
Jason.

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