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| author | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
| commit | e8937ba00998cca6f259b3fdf32a7f7a38bc26ec (patch) | |
| tree | 9eb4b7d718b67229ee4b8e61e9cad466a5a36945 /usr.bin/mktemp | |
| parent | 1c2451c24d59abde50b89c0d506523298e1ae1e1 (diff) | |
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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 08a4d33403b3..78308b397a1d 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 |