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Article #167Re: Bug in tempnam(3) function
From: Brian Matthews
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 03:05
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 03:05
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In article <433@mtndew.UUCP> friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: |Email will get a pretty detailed note on why |access(2) is evil. I wouldn't go that far. Access(2) is quite necessary for certain things. Unfortunately, it could probably have a better name, and the manual page (at least all the ones I've seen) doesn't do a great job of indicating when it should and shouldn't be used, so lots of people (evidently including whoever wrote tempnam(3) :-)) misuse it. This doesn't mean that access(2) is evil though. Remember: Access(2) doesn't kill people, people kill people :-) -- Brian L. Matthews blm@6sceng.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!sumax!thebes!polari!6sigma2 From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Bug in tempnam(3) function Message-ID: <2077@polari.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 90 03:05:45 GMT References: <433@mtndew.UUCP> Reply-To: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA Lines: 14