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| author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
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| committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
| commit | ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9eb4b7d718b67229ee4b8e61e9cad466a5a36945 /usr.bin/mktemp | |
| parent | e2acd5cecf61f060255d467b8d38cd35f941fb1c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7.zip FreeBSD-src-ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7.tar.gz | |
Use `The .Nm utility'
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mktemp')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 index 08a4d33..78308b3 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 @@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ including one based on the internal template resulting from the .Fl t flag. .Pp -.Nm Mktemp -is provided to allow shell scripts to safely use temporary files. +The +.Nm +utility is provided to allow shell scripts to safely use temporary files. Traditionally, many shell scripts take the name of the program with the pid as a suffix and use that as a temporary file name. This kind of naming scheme is predictable and the race condition it creates |
