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- From: hguller@freenet.vcu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Borland C's tmpnam()
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 00:53:31 -0500
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- > RE: BORLAND C'S TMPNAM()
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- > From: Larry Weiss <lfw@iadfw.net>
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- > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:26:23 -0600
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- >I might have written the Standard to say "not the name of an existing file
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- That is what K&R II says.
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- >at the time that the name was created".
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- This is obvious.
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- >There is no guarantee that that particular
- >name is somehow reserved against future use by other processes that may be
- >competing
- >with your C based process for file names.
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- I don't think the C standard concerns itself with multiprocessing.
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- Tmpnam will only work TMP_MAX times during the execution of a program.
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- Harold Guller
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