On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:16:30PM -0700, Muthukumar Ratty wrote:
> <URL:http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-03/msg00219.html>.
>
> This is turning into a FAQ, though infrequent enough that I
> believe people may forget why. Perhaps adding an obvious
> comment at the mktemp call site would help.
>
that sure would keep off some newbie trying it (like me:)
Don't give up. Recent versions of glibc provide mkdtemp, so you could
use that. The complication is that you'd need to add an autoconf test
for mkdtemp (see AC_CHECK_FUNCS) and fall back to using mktemp if
mkdtemp isn't available.