Re: mktemp() and friends

[lifesux () cox org (Uriel Maimon)]

I for one liked the sendmail safefopen().
I think it's the most thorough soloution for race conditions I have seen
so far. Feel free to correct me.

        Uriel

> open("/tmp/filename", O_CREAT|O_EXCL) is what I'd like to see used and what I
> think that interface should use (this provides an open file descriptor
> or -1 if the file is already there, no symbolic link races, etc).  I don't
> know if it does or doesn't, but it should.