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Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: temp file creation bug in diffutils 2.7
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:42:17 -0800 (PST)

> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:21:11 +0200 (IST)
> 
> > 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.

And this is how I plan to do it in the next diffutils release.
I've modified the latest glibc mkstemp so that it should be portable,
and plan to fold those changes into glibc.



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