Getting a safe path for a temporary file
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 18 08:00:30 PST 2015
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 11:21:52 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> It's not different, and if you're still doing the O_EXCL open
> afterwards, it's safe. I just assumed you were going to use the
> generated filename without a further check. This is then
> unsafe, no matter how the UUID is generated, and depending on
> the RNG that's been used, they can be quite predictable.
> Granted, the risk is low, but still...
tmpfile is more predictable: it generates sequential file names.
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