Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Privacy considerations

[Norbert Nemec]

a) The mkstemp-manpage contains the suggestion to use tmpfile instead.
b) tmpfile and all other functions that I know of create a temporary file that 
is rather meant for something like "memory extension" than for exchange with 
scripts and other external programs. (p.e. tmpfile deletes the file as soon 
as it is closed.) I don't really know why a modern program would need such a 
thing. For TeXmacs, it probably is not what is needed...


Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 23:36 schrieb Nix N. Nix:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > All temporary files are now created in ~/.TeXmacs/system and
> > most of them in ~/.TeXmacs/system/tmp.
> >
> > Now I agree more or less with what you say below.
> > However, I don't know of any safe Unix command which
> > creates temporary file names for me.
>
> I /believe/ mkstemp was created for this express purpose.
>
> There was the "mktemp" function which newer compilers accuse of being
> insecure by issuing a warning to that effect, and suggesting that one use
> mkstemp instead.

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