Re: [lmi] [lmi-commits] master 5567c43 1/3: Begin to tackle an observed unit-test failure

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:34:52 -0400 (EDT) Greg Chicares 
<gchicares@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

GC>     The approach taken here is to uniquify the directory name. In the shell,
GC>     it would be natural to use a command like mktemp(1). C and C++ offer
GC>     mktemp(3), but the freebsd manpage says it's "particularly dangerous
GC>     from a security perspective", the openbsd linker warns whenever it's
GC>     used, and the linux manpage says "Never use mktemp()". Instead, lmi's
GC>     unique_filepath() function is used here.

 FWIW, the replacement for mktemp() is mkstemp() and AFAIK MinGW does
provide its implementation even for MSW (although MSVC does not).

 Regards,
VZ

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