From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:07:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarified documentation of tempnam().
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~239
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=afff418b0fa1b9deeff40ace898785dd66e1b7e6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarified documentation of tempnam().
Closes SF bug #635656.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 7aed6fb415a1..af8871cda4c1 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -865,6 +865,10 @@ files if \var{dir} is omitted or \code{None}.  If given and not
 filename.  Applications are responsible for properly creating and
 managing files created using paths returned by \function{tempnam()};
 no automatic cleanup is provided.
+On \UNIX, the environment variable \envvar{TMPDIR} overrides
+\var{dir}, while on Windows the \envvar{TMP} is used.  The specific
+behavior of this function depends on the C library implementation;
+some aspects are underspecified in system documentation.
 \warning{Use of \function{tempnam()} is vulnerable to symlink attacks;
 consider using \function{tmpfile()} instead.}
 Availability: \UNIX, Windows.