casts to (void)

[Chris Torek]

>. . . and tempnam is just a throwback to the days before sprintf.

Not really; tempnam (or mktemp) is not the same as doing

	sprintf(fname, "/tmp/x%d", getpid());

(or variations thereupon) as it actually makes sure that such a
file doesn't already exist (what happens when you get the same pid
as someone else did earlier?).
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