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

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Antony lisp.linux@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