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.

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