Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.22-1
Severity: minor

The man page says:

 "The tmpfile() function generates a unique temporary filename."

This is true, but largely irrelevant: there's no (legal) way to get at
the name. Since this a rather difficult area (tmpname, tempnam,
mkstemp &c.), clarity helps.

I suggest rewriting the first two sentences as:

  The tmpfile() opens a unique temporary file in binary read/write
  (w+b) mode.

The generation of a unique filename is mentioned later (with reference
to errors); that's fine.

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