How portable is mktemp(1)?

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Published on 2010-05-08T02:15:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 2:18 UTC
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As the title suggests — can I be reasonably sure that mktemp will exist on any unix-y operating system I'm likely to encounter?

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