Hi Aurelien, > 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. This page seems to confirm this: http://www.fr.linuxfromscratch.org/view/lfs-cvs/chapter06/lfs-utils.html "mktemp creates temporary files in a secure manner. It is used in scripts. tempfile creates temporary files in a less secure manner than mktemp. It is installed for backwards-compatibility." They don't give details though. So let's go with mktemp. Mark, can you confirm that you have mktemp on your system(s)? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
