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Re: "Fix" strip test failure

amodra@one.net.au writes:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:46:18PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > 
> > bucomm.o: In function `make_tempname':
> > /cvs/binutils-gdb-ln/binutils/bucomm.c:246: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
> 
> Why don't we just heed the glibc warning, and use mkstemp if it's available?

That's the solution I tried first but I noticed that I don't know
enough about bfd to do it cleanly.

mkstemp opens the file also - and in bucomm we don't want an open
file.  If we would use mkstemp, we would need to change libbfd.

Andreas
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