Re: temp file suffixes: mktemp DWIM

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
>> This currently gives exit status 1, because the atexit() handler recognizes
>> failure to print the file name to stdout, but leaves the temporary file
>> around.  Should we go ahead and manually flush/close stdout, rather than
>> relying on close_stdout, so that we can then remove the just-created file if
> we
>> detect write failure?  That way, if we fail to inform the user what just got
>> created, we are at least avoiding littering their file system with a random
>> file.
>>
>> Fortunately, 'mktemp >&-' does not make the mistake of printing the just-
>> created file as the contents of that file, since we close the fd returned by
>> mkstemp before printing anything.
>
> How about the following?
>
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:02:20 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] mktemp: don't leave file behind on write failure
>
> * src/mktemp.c (main): Remove just-created file if stdout had
> problems.
> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add remove.
> * tests/misc/close-stdout: Test it.
> * NEWS: Document it.

With your fix-up, that's a fine fix.  Thanks!
I should catch up on your doc- and primary change tomorrow.