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From: Purtill@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: mktemp
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 18:25:06 EST
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>>         mktemp ("/tmp/fooXXXXXX");
>>                   becomes
>>         mktemp ( (char *) "/tmp/fooXXXXXX");
>Even better, it becomes
>          char tempstr[14+1];
>          strcpy(tempstr, "/tmp/fooXXXXXX");
>          mktemp(tempstr);
Wouldn't it be better to have the mktemp routine do the copying for you?
When the compiler is changed to make it ANSI standard, presumably mktemp
will be to, and if not,

void _mktemp (const char foo[]) {
     char tempstr[14+1];

     strcpy(tempstr, "/tmp/fooXXXXXX");
     mktemp(tempstr);
     }

#define mktemp _mktemp

in a header file is probably easier than changing all the references to
mktemp in all your programs.  (By the way, what does mktemp do?)

Mark