Tests for module 'pathmax'.

[gnulib.git] / lib / mkstemp.c

diff --git a/lib/mkstemp.c b/lib/mkstemp.c
index b0a8df3..3c8437e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/mkstemp.c
+++ b/lib/mkstemp.c
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@
 /* Generate a unique temporary file name from XTEMPLATE.
    The last six characters of XTEMPLATE must be "XXXXXX";
    they are replaced with a string that makes the file name unique.
-   Then open the file and return a fd. */
+   Then open the file and return a fd.
+
+   If you are creating temporary files which will later be removed,
+   consider using the clean-temp module, which avoids several pitfalls
+   of using mkstemp directly. */
 int
 mkstemp (char *xtemplate)
 {