>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
Philip> CONFORMING TO BSD 4.3
Philip> which suggests it won't be in every Unix. Also, I see that
Philip> the Solaris 8 man page states:
Philip> The tmpfile(3C) function is preferred over this
Philip> function.
Philip> This does not inspire me with confidence. However,
Philip> tmpfile() *is* in the Standard. I'm not sure why I didn't
Philip> make use of it (probably just forgot about its
Philip> existence). I've noted the issue for investigation.
I just checked my (Debian) Linux manpage for tmpnam :-
BUGS
Never use this function. Use tmpfile(3) instead.
!!
In fact I checked Debian's bug page to see if there was a bug report
for this but didn't find one, although I thought use of tmpnam was
heavily frowned upon now but may be my memory is going.
And one of the newer gccs (not sure from which version but 2.95.2 plus
patches at least) complains when compiling programs that use tmpnam.
I suggest seriously considering making the default to tmpfile with a
fallback to tmpnam at least for v4.
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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