To:	Helmut Muelner <hmuelner AT iicm DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Definitive GNU fileutils ports
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 94 15:09:42 +0200
From:	Eli Zaretskii <ucf-cs!is.elta.co.il!eliz AT alfred DOT oau DOT org>
Status:	RO

> One nice example is "sort" from textutils-1.9: The filenames it uses
> for temporary files consists of "sort" + 5 digits from getpid() + 5
> digits for a serial number all generating the same filename "sort0000"
> in MSDOG.

Yep.  This is a fairly common paradigm of generating a temporary
file name in GNU utilities.  Be sure to use tmpnam() from DJGPP
library if you don't want such ``surprises''.

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