tmpnam and mkstemp

Chmouel Boudjnah chmouel@mandrakesoft.com
Tue Jan 23 09:36:00 GMT 2001


habib <hkrit@openave.com> writes:

> I get this surprising diagnostic:
> 
>      the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
> 
> when compiling code that uses the ANSI-C function tmpnam()
> with gcc 2.95.2 on redhat 7.  I did not use to get this diagnostic
> with egcs 1.1.2.
> 
> Is anybody else experiencing this?  What might be causing it?

the linker, it's an information to let you know to use more secure tmp
functions. 

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