Re: GNU enhancement -- $(xargs cmd, list)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Reid Madsen <address@hidden> writes:

  >> Also, it might be a Good Thing to try to integrate the temporary file
  >> with the ^C handling in GNU make so that the temp file was removed even
  >> if the user used ^C.  And, any creation of temp files needs to be
  >> hardened to avoid DOS, etc. attacks.

  rm> I thought of this too.  If you give me some pointers, I'll try to
  rm> prototype it.

For the latter, there's an open_tmpfile() function in main.c which
should do what you want; hopefully the interface is sufficient (see its
use in main.c as well).

For the former, I don't have any brainstorms; the "current" temp file
names will just have to be kept somewhere, I guess.

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