[Python-Dev] Improved tmpfile module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Greg wrote:

> > (fd, name) = mkstemp(suffix="", binary=1): Creates a temporary file,
> > returning both an OS-level file descriptor open on it and its name.
> > This is useful in situations where you need to know the name of the
> > temporary file, but can't risk the race in mktemp.
> 
> +1 except for the name.  What does the "s" stand for?

"safe"?  or at least "safer"?  unix systems usually have both "mktemp"
and "mkstemp", but I think they're both deprecated under SUSv2 (use
"tmpfile" instead).

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