Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Solar Designer wrote:

> This is very non-portable, but I don't think this patch was ever
> meant to be used anywhere other than in GNU/*/Linux distributions.

??? Why?

By ``non-portable'' did you mean anything besides this snippet?

  +           asprintf (&tmpname, "%s/sdiff.XXXXXX",
  +             getenv("TMPDIR") ?: P_tmpdir);

If this is the only non-portable stuff, then it could be made portable.