Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Stefan Monnier]

> Shouldn't make-temp-file-internal return a non predictable file name?

Nope.  It's less predictable but it's still predictable.

> Otherwise what's the point of using make-temp-file in the first place if
> the temporary name is predictable?

`make-temp-name` uses `O_EXCL | O_CREAT` so as to close the race
condition: if someone predicated the filename, we detect it atomically
and we try again.

You might like to check

    
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/FIO21-C.+Do+not+create+temporary+files+in+shared+directories


-- Stefan