@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
@item
This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdlib.h>}
on some platforms:
limit that it can create no more than 26 files from a given template. On
OSF/1 4.0f, it can create only 32 files per process.
@item
+On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkstemp} may not work
+correctly to create files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
+@item
On some older platforms, @code{mkstemp} can create a world or group
writable or readable file, if you haven't set the process umask to
077. This is a security risk.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
-@item
-On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkstemp} may not work
-correctly to create files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
-@code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
@end itemize
The gnulib module @code{clean-temp} can create temporary files that will not