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Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:43:24 +0100 |
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>>
>>> Now that glibc 2.11 has mkostemps, and I'm working on adding that to gnulib,
>> it
>>> would be nice to expose the idea of an explicit suffix to temporary file
>>> names. But rather than require the user to count how long their suffix is,
>>> I
>>> imagine it would make more sense to give mktemp(1) some do-what-I-mean
>> smarts.
>
> Thanks a lot for writing the documentation (that's been a thorn in my
> side for far too long) and the careful once-over.
> I haven't had time yet to study much of this message, but bear
> in mind that I tried to implement a program that was faithful
> to this documentation:
>
> http://mktemp.org/manual.html
Here's more perspective on -p vs -t:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/11527
Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Eric Blake, 2009/11/03
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/03
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Pádraig Brady, 2009/11/03
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Eric Blake, 2009/11/04
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Eric Blake, 2009/11/04
- Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/04
- mktemp write failure (was: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM), Eric Blake, 2009/11/05
- Re: mktemp write failure, Eric Blake, 2009/11/05
- Re: mktemp write failure, Eric Blake, 2009/11/05
- Re: mktemp write failure, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/06
- Re: mktemp write failure, Eric Blake, 2009/11/06
- Re: mktemp write failure, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/06