Re: [patch] use mkstemp instead of mktemp.

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:11:27PM -0700, Muthukumar Ratty wrote:
> Does this sound ok? Also mkstemp opens the file... that increments
> the file reference count? So close it in make_tempname before returning?

I think the nicest solution would be to throw out make_tempname and
replace it with create_tempfile.  create_tempfile should handle all the
file/dir creation, and return both a file descriptor and the temp file
name (for cases when you want to rename and keep the file).

/* Creates a temporary file in the same directory as NAME, and returns
   its file descriptor.  NEWNAME is set to the path of the file.  If
   FLAGS include O_DIRECTORY, then the temp file is a directory.
   On failure, -1 is returned.  */

int create_tempfile (const char *name, int flags, char *newname);

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Alan Modra
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