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2011.01.10 16:18 "Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Jeff Mckenna
2011.01.10 16:59 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam
2011.01.10 18:59 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Jeff Mckenna
2011.01.10 20:35 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam
2011.01.10 20:37 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam
2011.01.10 20:54 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Bob Friesenhahn
2011.01.10 21:30 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam
2011.01.11 00:01 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Igor Skochinsky
2011.01.11 15:41 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam
2011.01.11 16:18 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Olivier Paquet
2011.01.11 16:38 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Igor Skochinsky

2011.01.10 20:35 "Re: Missing mkstemp() on Visual Studio 2008", by Edward Lam

On 1/10/2011 1:59 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Thank you for your response.  The changes made through this ticket
> recently (http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2118) indeed
> changed from using tmpfile() to mkstemp().  I am unable to compile on
> Windows because of this change.  How should I compile CVS HEAD on
> windows therefore?

Then I move that the patch be reverted. Why was it even necessary to use 
mkstemp() when we don't care about the file name? Not to mention that 
the new code uses a fixed length buffer that could in theory cause a 
buffer overflow.

-Edward