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From: cim2@pyuxv.UUCP (Robert L. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC 4.0 bugs
Message-ID: <286@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 10:50:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 10:50:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 19:42:59 EDT
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Bonnie Olszewski, Sun Microsystems East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS)
writes on the MSC 4.0 compiler:

>2) result = mktemp(template) corrupts the template after the call, 
>	so that template must be reinitialized before mktemp 
>	can be called again.
> UUCP: {ihnp4,decwrl,...}!sun!bonnieo <OR> decvax!eagle_snax!bonnieo

THIS IS NOT A BUG ! This has been the *documented* functionality of
mktemp(3) for many years - it replaces your template with the file name,
and returns a pointer to the template. The alternative is for mktemp to
malloc storage for the created name - not always desirable.

Personally, I think mktemp s*cks - checkout tmpnam(3) and tempnam(3)
as MUCH better and more flexible ways of creating temporary file names.
(Also available on UNIX SYS-V)

Bob Fair
Bellcore/CHC
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