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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 13:09:44 -0600
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mktemp() vs. mkstemp() 
Message-ID:  <200005141909.e4EJ9iN09199@orthanc.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 May 2000 14:49:28 EDT." <200005141849.OAA21071@rac10.wam.umd.edu> 

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>>>>> "James" == James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> writes:

    James> mkstemp() returns an integer file descriptor whereas normal
    James> people use FILE * pointers, including the author of this
    James> port.  How about an mkftemp() which wraps around mkstemp()
    James> and does an fdopen()?

Is it that much work to add

   if ((stream=fdopen(fd, mode)) == NULL)
      err(...);

after a mkstemp call? If you use it that much you can define a function
in your application. There's no need to add a non-portable routine
to libc for this.

--lyndon


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