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- From: Larry Weiss <lfw@iadfw.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Borland C's tmpnam()
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:35:35 -0600
- Organization: customer of Internet America
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- Lawrence Kirby wrote:
- >
- > In article <3154C0DF.6E90@iadfw.net> lfw@iadfw.net "Larry Weiss" writes:
- >
- > >> "The tempnam function generates a string that is a valid file name and that
- > >> is not the name of an existing file."
- > >>
- > >I might have written the Standard to say "not the name of an existing file at
- > >the time that the name was created".
- >
- > I don't think that is necessary. IMHO "an existing file" can only refer to
- > one that exists at the time, it cannot refer to something that may exist in
- > the future. To put it another way if a file with that name does not exist
- > until sometime later it is not "an existing file".
- >
-
- I see your point. I just preferred the redundant wording so that it would
- stress the fact that you still have to do more work to really insure that
- you were in possession of a name that could be used to aid the genesis of a file.
-