Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > >> Now that glibc 2.11 has mkostemps, and I'm working on adding that to gnulib, > it >> would be nice to expose the idea of an explicit suffix to temporary file >> names. But rather than require the user to count how long their suffix is, I >> imagine it would make more sense to give mktemp(1) some do-what-I-mean > smarts.
Thanks a lot for writing the documentation (that's been a thorn in my side for far too long) and the careful once-over. I haven't had time yet to study much of this message, but bear in mind that I tried to implement a program that was faithful to this documentation: http://mktemp.org/manual.html I hope to get to this tomorrow. > Before I do that, how about documenting what mktemp currently does. The > proposed patch documents the current behavior, although it probably needs some > tweaks (and corresponding tweaks in mktemp.c) based this email. > > mktemp --help is not very obvious that --tmpdir is implied if no TEMPLATE is > given.
