On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:15:46PM +0200, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >What is the point of the Solaris mktemp(1) -u option though? Why would > >anyone choose "unsafe operation"? > > It came from OpenBSD. > > I can understand the reason, though, you can't always want to create a > file, you may want an unique value: > > unique=$(mktemp -u XXXXXX)
I see. Thanks.