On Wed, Dec 05 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:01:41PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> >> decide to stress test in advance, since we'd either flock() the trash >> >> dir, or just mktemp(1)-it. >> > >> > While 'mktemp' seems to be more portable than 'flock', it doesn't seem >> > to be portable enough; at least it's not in POSIX.> >> >> We are already relying on stuff like mktemp() being reliable for >> e.g. the split index. > > That's the mktemp() function from libc; I meant the 'mktemp' command > that we would use this early in 'test-lib.sh', where PATH has not been > set up for testing yet. Ah, if that ever becomes an issue it's a one-line test-tool wrapper.
