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Re: mktemp() and friends


From: lifesux () cox org (Uriel Maimon)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:39:55 +0200


I for one liked the sendmail safefopen().
I think it's the most thorough soloution for race conditions I have seen
so far. Feel free to correct me.

        Uriel

open("/tmp/filename", O_CREAT|O_EXCL) is what I'd like to see used and what I
think that interface should use (this provides an open file descriptor
or -1 if the file is already there, no symbolic link races, etc).  I don't
know if it does or doesn't, but it should.



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