From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  Temporary files
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4396
Posted: Thu Nov 25 05:44:24 1982
Received: Fri Nov 26 02:25:01 1982

From:     Doug Gwyn <gwyn@Brl>
Date:     24 Nov 82 15:45:58-EST (Wed)
UNIX already has a temporary-file mechanism, tmpfile(3).  The file
vanishes when closed.

The trouble with record locking is that the UNIX file system has no
concept of "record" built in.  We would like to keep it this way.
Applications needing record locking should access the file through
a record manager process.