and directories? If nothing else, it would serve as documentation of the "official way".
Off to cut and paste :-) --[[DavidBremner]]
+
+> Hmm, I see only three users of temp files in all ikiwiki:
+> * hnb uses `File::Temp::mkstemp` to create two temp file handles.
+> * teximg uses `File::Temp::tempdir` to create a temporary directory.
+> * attachment retrieves a temp file from `CGI::tmpFileName`.
+> These are three quite different uses of temp files, not subject to
+> unification. Using `File::Temp` (and avoiding the posibly insecure
+> `mktemp`, `tmpname`, and `tempnam` functions) is probably as unified as
+> can be managed. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> OK, fair enough. Somehow the code in teximg made me think it was
+>> all a bit complicated. But after I played with it a bit more (and used File::Temp)
+>> I tend to agree, there is no real problem there to fix.
+>> Feel free to mark [[done]] [[DavidBremner]]