On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:28:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-11-04 18:41:55 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > > * Replace several 'mktemp' with safer 'mkstemp' alternative. > But there is a difference in case of error. According to the man pages,
The reasoning for using mktemp vs. mkstemp was described in Msg-ID <20060817052317.ga4...@robert>[*] in August 2006 by good old Rocco (God bless his soul), after I had actually asked. :) It didn't sound like it was intended to be replaced. (Yes, that was a "get rid of warnings" sub-thread back then. Déjà vu?) I'm not sure whether the use model has changed, or is different in the listed cases. Moritz [*] http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=115579224905334
