Re: [Monotone-devel] Do not install my latest Debian snapshot!

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:41:07 -0700, "Zack Weinberg" 
<address@hidden> said:

zackw> On 7/16/07, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
zackw> >
zackw> > I think I've made a generic implementation that should work
zackw> > well enough.  It's based on mktemp() which, although deemed
zackw> > unsafe in general, should work well combined with the
zackw> > non-clobbering feature of mkdir().  It's in
zackw> > f64a2daedf0f80005070c08eb34dffaefc0c394a.
zackw> 
zackw> Yeah, that should work fine.  Thanks!

Except )(/#¤(&% Microsoft has decided to deprecate the )(/%#(/¤%&/
POSIX functions mkdir() and mktemp() and renamed them to _-prefixed
variants instead!  &(/#¤%(()/#¤/ idiots!!!!!

(I'm in a bad mood today, does it show?)

zackw> (I think, if !HAVE_MKDTEMP, you could just define static char *
zackw> mkdtemp(...) -- there shouldn't be anything in the headers by
zackw> that name then.)

Hmm, good point.  Guess I'm a bit paranoid ;-)

Cheers,
Richard

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