From my reading of the documentation, g_mkstemp() is a strict superset of mkstemp()'s functionality. datallah commented in the commit message for 27e1df003532e1209f1f56770923ca4c7674d7ca that he thought this could be done the same on *nix and Win32, but didn't want to break anything before the release. I'm confident this should be okay, and it should be safe to break things now. ;)