Re: /tmp files

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From: Stephen Riehm
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 08:13

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scairns@is.morgan.com writes:

>Is there a system call to randomly generate unique file names
>in /tmp?  

there are two:
mktemp(1)	for scripts
mktemp(3C)	for programs.

man 3 mktemp will get you the second manpage if you have a brain dead
man program like me :-)

catchya

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