[GHC] #9058: System.IO.openTempFile does not scale

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#9058: System.IO.openTempFile does not scale
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        Reporter:  slyfox            |                   Owner:
            Type:  bug               |                  Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |               Milestone:  7.10.1
       Component:  Compiler          |                 Version:  7.8.2
      Resolution:                    |                Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |            Architecture:
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |  Unknown/Multiple
      Blocked By:                    |               Test Case:
 Related Tickets:                    |                Blocking:
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Changes (by rwbarton):

 * status:  closed => new
 * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 This does now mean that the sequence of filenames is completely fixed for
 a given program (since we don't seed the random number generator) which
 has some obvious downsides.

 It would be nice to just use `mkstemps`, but maybe that is not portable
 enough? I wonder what other languages' standard libraries do here?

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