Mike O'Dell wrote:
if i were to hazzard a guess, the reason the code doesn't use
mkstemp() is that [1] the code cited is likely well more than
twice age of mkstemp() [2]and nobody has gone looking for
things to fix that were still (apparently) working. (big grin)
While it does work, mkstemp is far superior to mktemp in every way.
There's not a terribly good reason to not use it. I've been looking at
how to best do this, but sadly the code needs serious cleanup first.
There is a lot of duplication, and it seems a lack of uniform error
handling when using tempfiles.
the question about /tmp is probably related the security issues
and how difficult it has been to make /tmp files robust against
hijacking.
mkstemp should make it nearly impossible to hijack a file in /tmp.
--
JB
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