<<On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:13:46 +0000, Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> said:
> Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chaze...@gmail.com> wrote, on 02 Nov 2016: >> >> At the moment, there's no way (that I know) to create a temp file >> reliably with POSIX utilities > Given an m4 utility that conforms to the 2008 standard, there is: > tmpfile=$(echo 'mkstemp(/tmp/fooXXXXXX)' | m4) > However, I don't know how widespread support for the new mkstemp() > macro is. Would any of the sponsors be willing to support a proposal to standardize the mktemp utility? -GAWollman
