tmpnam() bug and workaround (WAS Re: CVS 1.3)

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:06

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In article <1992Oct14.002716.8257@splunge.uucp> royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) writes:
> NeXT's tmpnam() doesn't work

I think someone from NeXT posted that this was a known bug and they recommend using
NXGetTempFilename() instead.
you could also try mktemp() which may be more portable.
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