> This is primarily useful in very open environments where everyone has a
> umask of 002 and belongs to one group; misbehaving or aborting programs
> may leave a temp file in /tmp with a common name, and you are forced to
> hunt down the owner or the superuser before you can run your program,
> which is a pain.

The solution for this particular problem is for programs to insure that
their tmp files have unique names.

-Dave
seifert@sequent.com