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From: jdb@mtunf.UUCP (John Bell)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: nonsense names
Message-ID: <453@mtunf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 17:25:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtunf.453
Posted: Tue Jun  4 17:25:58 1985
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References: <1936@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <2673@nsc.UUCP> <122@sdlvax.UUCP> <2123@uvacs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdb@mtunf.UUCP (964-John Bell)
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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Keywords: temporary files

In article <2123@uvacs.UUCP> mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin) writes:
 ...
>Ths does point out an annoying feature of UN*X -- the lack of an anonymous
>current file, which forces the invention of a lot of names for intermediate
>files.  Pipes help, but sometimes you need to see intermediate stages before
>they disappear.

I thought that is what "mktemp(3C)", "tmpfile(3S)", and "tmpnam(3S)" were
all about.  (I admit that I'm new to SysV, and haven't tried any of them
yet, but you can always hack up something with "getpid(2)", "sprintf(3S)",
and "fopen(3S)" if you don't have "mktemp" or it doesn't work.)

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