On Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 14:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:23:21PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > > > Running 'make check' now, I see these messages along the way: > > > > mktemp: too few X's in template `r_64bit_big_expand.XXXXXX.tmp' This "too few X's" is misleading -- what it intends to say is that it sees zero X's in the final component of the name, "tmp". > Hmm... what OS and if Linux, version of coreutils are you using? Ubuntu Lucid, 2010.04, mktemp --version | head -1 mktemp (GNU coreutils) 8.13 > On my system, from "man mktemp": > > Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its > name. TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > last component. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Same here. It still says "*last* component". Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html