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This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11,
-IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.7.5, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.7.5, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
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On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkostemp} may not work
correctly to create files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)