From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:01:07 GMT
Subject: Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;)
Message-ID: <E1DNMVX-00013d-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050416170221.38b3e66c.pj@sgi.com>

Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> Even mktemp(1) can collide, in theory, since there is no practical way
> in shell scripts to hold open and locked the file from the instant of it
> is determined to be a unique name.

mktemp(1) creates the file before exiting.  Other instances of mktemp(1)
cannot successfully create the same file (they all use O_EXCL).
Therefore this race does not exist, even in theory :)
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