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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/05
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"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> Can you enlight us about why one should not use tmpnam() and tempnam() ?

Because they just give you a filename without opening it. A file by that
name did not exist at the moment when tmpnam() decided that it was OK to
return it to you, but that gives you no information about its existence
at the time you actually want to use that filename.