tmpnam and mkstemp

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:19:43AM -0800, habib wrote:
> 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?

It's the GNU C library, glibc, not the compiler.


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