Jim Meyering wrote: > 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
Here's more perspective on -p vs -t: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/11527
