[aspect-devel] mktemp failure

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

>> I think mkstemp could work (I don't know
>> why I didn't find that). I'm not enough of a C programmer to know what
>> it means that the function returns an 'int' -- is that the same as
>> FILE*? And how do I convert it to a C++ std::ostream?
>
> Let me quote yourself, Wolfgang:
>> The only one one should use is mkstemp
>> but this function creates a file handle that points to a file that
>> is destroyed upon closing the file handle. How am I supposed to
>> copy this file around then if it gets deleted right away?

How short my memory is. And how good to have assistants who can help me 
figure out my past thought processes :-)

That said, the reason why I didn't remember that statement is because my 
laptop's man page says nothing about deleting the file again. Do you 
also remember where I had that statement from?

Cheers
  W.

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