Re: GNU enhancement -- $(xargs cmd, list)

[Reid Madsen]

Uhhhh....  Not sure what version of GNUmake you are looking at but I see no
version of 'open_tmpfile()' in 3.78.1.

Please advise.

Reid

 > Date: 6 Nov 2000 16:56:30 -0600
 > From: Reid Madsen <address@hidden>
 > 
 >  > Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:45:45 -0500
 >  > From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
 >  > 
 >  > %% Reid Madsen <address@hidden> writes:
 >  > 
 >  >   >> Also, it might be a Good Thing to try to integrate the temporary file
 >  >   >> with the ^C handling in GNU make so that the temp file was removed 
 > even
 >  >   >> if the user used ^C.  And, any creation of temp files needs to be
 >  >   >> hardened to avoid DOS, etc. attacks.
 >  > 
 >  >   rm> I thought of this too.  If you give me some pointers, I'll try to
 >  >   rm> prototype it.
 >  > 
 >  > For the latter, there's an open_tmpfile() function in main.c which
 >  > should do what you want; hopefully the interface is sufficient (see its
 >  > use in main.c as well).
 >  > 
 >  > For the former, I don't have any brainstorms; the "current" temp file
 >  > names will just have to be kept somewhere, I guess.


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