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Re: lynx-dev Is Lynx being developed for OS-X for Macintosh?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Is Lynx being developed for OS-X for Macintosh? |
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Wed, 10 Apr 2002 05:55:25 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:23:49PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
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> > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:03:37 -0400
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> > I made a fix for another system where tempname also is broken, in 2.8.5dev.4
> > (actually for mkstemp - would need more information to see if the fix isn't
> > general enough).
> >
> <SIGH> OS X substitutes PID for the XXXXXX and attempts to create the
> file. If creation fails, it substitutes a0, b0, ..., z0, aa, ba, ..., zz
> for the first two digits of PID until it succeeds in creating a unique file.
> Unfortunately, Lynx renames the generated file, so mkstemp() never needs
> to roll ahead to the next name. </SIGH>
iirc, Lynx renames the file to force suffix-rule behavior when reading it. I
suppose that could be fixed.
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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