Re: unique temporary file name
Re: unique temporary file name
- Subject: Re: unique temporary file name
- From: Greg Herlihy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:07:18 -0700
- Thread-topic: unique temporary file name
Note that the tempnam man page strongly discourages programs from calling
tempnam due to security issues and a potential race condition with the
routine. The tempnam man page recommends mkstemp as a safer alternative.
Greg
On 5/16/06 5:21 PM, "Deborah Goldsmith" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Also:
>
> man tempnam
>
> Deborah Goldsmith
> Internationalization, Unicode liaison
> Apple Computer, Inc.
> email@hidden
>
> On May 16, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Ryan Britton wrote:
>
>> Here's a snippet from some code I use to get a unique, temporary
>> path name:
>>
>> CFUUIDRef uuid = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
>> CFStringRef uuidString = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, uuid);
>> CFRelease(uuid);
>> [self setTemporaryStore:[NSTemporaryDirectory()
>> stringByAppendingPathComponent:(NSString *) uuidString]];
>> CFRelease(uuidString);
>>
>>
>> On May 16, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Angelo Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How to obtain a unique file name from a directory? thanks
>>>
>>>
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