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Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7 |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:21:11 +0200 (IST) |
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?
>
> mkstemp(3) is not sufficiently portable for use in GNU software.
This is usually handled by a configure test, and having a free
implementation in the distribution for the platforms which don't
have it.
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Greg KH, 2001/01/02
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Solar Designer, 2001/01/03
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/01/03
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Solar Designer, 2001/01/04
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Greg KH, 2001/01/04
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/01/04
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Solar Designer, 2001/01/04
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7, Paul Eggert, 2001/01/04