Re: temporary files in wine

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 2/12/07, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> One solution would be to use a function other than tmpfile, such
> as mkstemp, to create the temporary file.  Perhaps that's what we
> should do.

mingw doesn't have mkstemp either. I've been using mkstemps from libiberty.

> Maybe mingw should provide a better version of tmpfile.  Unix
> programmers expect it to do something sensible, not this
> nonsense.  I suppose we could report a mingw bug.
>
> Thoughts?

Mingw is basically meant to be bug for bug compatible with windows. I
should probably try linking against mingwex library before you spend
to much more time on this... the mingwex library is meant to add some
C99 like functionality to mingw.

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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia