mkstemp vs. tmpnam , tempnam

[Neil Schemenauer]

Janet wrote:
> I am running it on Linux, Mandrake 8.0.  Both tmpnam and tempnam are
> considered unsafe.  Is there a patch for this problem or I can just
> modified the Modules/posixmodule.c to use msktemp instead?

Don't worry about it.  Python doesn't use those functions unless you do.
If you're really paranoid you could remove those functions from
posixmodule.

  Neil