[boost] Re: Boost Test - when you've got nothing else to do

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

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b) the ability to create a temporary fstream with a unique name in a safe way.

Could you give me more dtailes on that: what the problem, why it needs framework to resolve it e.t.c.

I think he's refering to the fact that tmpnam is considered insecure. There's a discussion here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html if you scroll to 7.10.1.2. I've been planning to write a secure temp file component for the iostreams library, since I'm currently using tmpnam in the regression tests, but I haven't got around to it yet. Jonathan