Re: Solar Designer groff tempfile audit

[Keith Marshall]

On 23/06/11 13:39, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> i just committed the follwing to the OpenBSD ports tree,
> where i'm maintaining a port of groff-1.21.

As you are perfectly entitled to do; however...

> This posting includes a commit message and a patch at the end.

I cannot accept this patch.  I had a similar discussion a year or two
ago, with Colin Watson of Debian/Ubuntu.  Your patch would make pdfroff
completely dependent on the availability of a working mktemp.  I cannot
assume that such a dependency will always be satisfied; indeed, until
very recently, no such utility was available on the MS-Windows/MSYS
platform which, for me, is where I have most need of pdfroff.

Some form of fall back is necessary, in the event that the host does not
provide a working mktemp; I will not accept any patch which fails to
recognise this.

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Regards,
Keith.