From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: libc bug?
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:24:50 -0700
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>> opens in text?  doesn't that kind of negate the effects of a temporary
file?
>
>According to ANSI/ISO 9899-1990, clause 7.9.4.3,
>
>"The tmpfile function creates a temporary binary file that will
automatically be
>removed when it is closed or at program termination.  If the program
terminates
>abnormally, whether an open temporary file is removed is
>implementation-defined.  The file is opened for update with "wb+" mode."
>
>Thus, an implementation of tmpfile() that opens the file in text mode would
not
>conform to the standard.


ah hah.  so i'm not an insane moron.  thankyou.  so this was most likely
overlooked, since someone posted a message saying that this bug was
corrected in the latest library.  (which i have yet to download.)

kind of an important bug, you know? although tmpfile() probably isn't used
much.

        -={C}=-