[alexandria-devel] Proposed addition of temporary file creation utilities

[Hans Hübner]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Antony <lisp.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition to the suggested use of mkstemp kind of things, I'd like to
> point out that your proposed code's use of 'random' may not be thread safe
> (I don't mean it's hazardous, but it may not generate unique names).  May
> not be a big deal, but just one more point to consider.

Thank you for pointing that out.  I'm not quite sure whether one can
expect calls to be thread-safe or not.  The standard certainly has
nothing to say about this, but maybe someone here knows what the
implementations do?

Thanks,
Hans