Re: LYNX-DEV Improvement on /tmp code fix?

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

[Jonathan Sergent:]
> > I'm trying to figure out how fdopen() could possibly help, though; I
> > don't need it for fchmod.

> if you open the file with the right permissions, you don't need to chmod it.
> you should be able to wrapper this to construct the filename and return the
> pointer to it as one operation, that way you aren't going to be concerned
> about someone else using the file.

Lynx's tempname() returns a filename, not an open stream.  It seems you 
are talking about changing this convention.  If you do that, you are
more or less back to my alpha-patch (and the issues).

   Klaus

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