Re: Is there a Unix /tmp directory. How dissimilar are they.

In article <44CF86BA.FC55A952@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Another aspect:

On VMS, there is the capacity of having "temporary" files. However, it
is not well known. You can specify, when you open a file, that the file
is to be deleted on closing.

Sigh.....

This is hardly unique to VMS. Unix has tmpfile(),
"The tmpfile() function returns a pointer to a stream associated
with a file descriptor returned by the routine mkstemp(3). The
created file is unlinked before tmpfile() returns, causing the
file to be automatically deleted when the last reference to it
is closed. "

It is part of the ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'') standard. And, it
was even included in the Fortan77 Language Specification.

bill

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