Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Re: casts to (void) Message-ID: <1210@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 16:46:01 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1210 Posted: Tue Aug 13 16:46:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:45:43 EDT References: <441@brl-tgr.ARPA> <261@kitty.UUCP> <549@brl-tgr.ARPA> <363@baylor.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 13 >. . . and tempnam is just a throwback to the days before sprintf. Not really; tempnam (or mktemp) is not the same as doing sprintf(fname, "/tmp/x%d", getpid()); (or variations thereupon) as it actually makes sure that such a file doesn't already exist (what happens when you get the same pid as someone else did earlier?). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland