From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 14 20:30: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9567B37B70F; Sun, 14 May 2000 20:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA24025; Sun, 14 May 2000 20:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:29:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp() In-Reply-To: <20000514224905.D14160@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > It's certainly not like it would be the first non-portable function > we've added. Where adding functions to libraries encourages better > coding practices, I'm (often) in favour of it, especially if it > encourages more secure coding practices. Ultimately everyone > benefits, and the pain is short-term. True, but I'd venture that in most of those cases they did something a little less trivial than one line of code. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message