Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the implementation is such that it tries to create the file in a directory > that the user does not have write permission to, it's a bug.
Well, I think it would be a valid implementation on Unix to always try to create the file in /tmp, which'd likely fail if someone had revoked world write on /tmp --- but doing the latter is administrator error, not a library fault. OTOH, if / is *supposed* to be non world writable on Win32, then trying to create temp files there indicates a seriously brain-damaged library. It should be trying to create the file in a place where the user is expected to have permission to do it. Has anyone looked to see with tmpfile() actually does though? I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't create stuff in the same directory as tmpnam(). I wonder if Magnus and Yoshiyuki are testing under different conditions. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster