How to create a std::ofstream to a temp file?

Question

Okay, mkstemp is the preferred way to create a temp file in POSIX.

But it opens the file and returns an int, which is a file descriptor. F

Answer 1

Maybe this will work:

char tmpname[256];
ofstream f;
sprintf (tmpname, "/tmp/tmpfileXXXXXX");
int fd = mkstemp(tmpname);
ofstream f(tmpname);

I haven't tried it, but you can check.