On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Indeed mktmp seems to be more widely available. Any idea why tempfile > exists though? I wonder why we have two commands doing basically the > same thing. They differs by the fact tempfile uses tempnam(), whereas mktemp uses mkstemp(). I don't know exactly the difference, but after reading the manpage, it seems that tempnam() only return a valid filename, whereas mkstemp() create a file with 0600 permissions, and return its name. So, it's seems that mkstemp() is more secure, as it is possible to create a file between the call to tempnam() and actual creation of the file. However, it's only my interpretation, I am not sure about that. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32 at debian.org | aurelien at aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
