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Re: unicode build: "comparison is always true" warnings


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: unicode build: "comparison is always true" warnings
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:46:35 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

> From the man page of mktemp:
>
>        Since on the one  hand  the  names
>        are  easy to guess, and on the other hand there is a race between test-
>        ing whether the name exists and opening the file, every use of mktemp()
>        is a security risk.  The race is avoided by mkstemp(3).

In which way it is different from what mkstemp is doing?

Andreas.

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