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What does 'safely' mean in man mktemp?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: What does 'safely' mean in man mktemp?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:50:49 -0600

Hi,

man mktemp says "Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and
print its name."

I'm wondering what it means by "safely".

Does mktemp test if there is already a tempfile with the given name?
If there is indeed with the same file name, will mktemp use a
different name rather than overwrite the one with the original name?

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Regards,
Peng



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