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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/mkstemp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/mkstemp.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/mkstemp.c b/lib/mkstemp.c index b0a8df3..7a9af6c 100644 --- a/lib/mkstemp.c +++ b/lib/mkstemp.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2001, 2005-2007, 2009-2011 Free Software +/* Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2001, 2005-2007, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is derived from the one in the GNU C Library. @@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ /* Generate a unique temporary file name from XTEMPLATE. The last six characters of XTEMPLATE must be "XXXXXX"; they are replaced with a string that makes the file name unique. - Then open the file and return a fd. */ + Then open the file and return a fd. + + If you are creating temporary files which will later be removed, + consider using the clean-temp module, which avoids several pitfalls + of using mkstemp directly. */ int mkstemp (char *xtemplate) { |