Bug in tempnam(3) function

[Brian Matthews]

In article <433 at mtndew.UUCP> friedl at mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
|Email will get a pretty detailed note on why
|access(2) is evil.

I wouldn't go that far.  Access(2) is quite necessary for certain things.
Unfortunately, it could probably have a better name, and the manual page
(at least all the ones I've seen) doesn't do a great job of indicating
when it should and shouldn't be used, so lots of people (evidently
including whoever wrote tempnam(3) :-)) misuse it.  This doesn't mean
that access(2) is evil though.

Remember: Access(2) doesn't kill people, people kill people :-)
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Brian L. Matthews	blm at 6sceng.UUCP