Hi, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:14:27PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Old operating systems may not even have mktemp; less old > > operating systems may have a mktemp which is not compatible with > > the usual post-1.5 version. Let's try to do without. > > can you give some concrete examples? SunOS 5.8 has no mktemp (which is not so bad, because as you say, we could provide our own stub). Mac OS X mktemp does not allow omitting the template argument but otherwise shouldn't be much of a problem. On Mac OS X (and old BSDs, too, presumably), "mktemp -t arg" treats arg as a prefix for a filename rather than a template for a filename, but that is just a cosmetic problem. So thinking it through, perhaps we should do the following: - provide a simple mini-mktemp for users install to install themselves on old systems - always provide the template argument to mktemp The arcane umask use would then go in that mini-mktemp which most people would not be using. I still would appreciate suggestions from any shell hackers on how to implement it properly (in particular, how to get random numbers that change more than once/second). I'll work on a patch in a few hours when I get home. Thanks for the comments. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
