> Von: "Christopher W. Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Bug#368501: manpages-dev: tempnam.3, mktemp.3 says to use > mkstemp.3 which says to use tmpfile.3 > > Quite simply, the man pages for tempnam.3 and mktemp.3 both say to use > mkstemp.3 but that man page says to never use the function and > recommends using tmpfile.3. tmpfile.3 seems happy to be called. > > I hope that tmpfile() really is a secure call ... people seem confused.
Yes, they do. By chance, I recently had the following comment to Joey and Justin on the subject. [[ > +Don't use this function, use > +.BR tmpfile (3) > +instead. It is better defined and more portable. This advice is dubious. mkstemp() is standardised and well defined, and serves a somewhat different purpose to tmpfile(). ]] The quoted text should just be removed from mkstemp.3... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
