Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Solar Designer wrote:

> > > This is very non-portable, but I don't think this patch was ever
> > > meant to be used anywhere other than in GNU/*/Linux distributions.
> > 
> > ??? Why?
> 
> mkstemp(3) is not sufficiently portable for use in GNU software.

This is usually handled by a configure test, and having a free 
implementation in the distribution for the platforms which don't
have it.