Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > > Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > > > 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. > > I noticed this when rereading my patch. I'll be pushing this soon...
after squashing this in, too: diff --git i/doc/coreutils.texi w/doc/coreutils.texi index d24a92c..3721bee 100644 --- i/doc/coreutils.texi +++ w/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12187,12 +12187,12 @@ mktemp invocation can create an object by the same name. @item -p @var{dir} -...@itemx --tempdi...@var{dir}] +...@itemx --tmpdi...@var{dir}] @opindex -p -...@opindex --tempdir +...@opindex --tmpdir Treat @var{template} relative to the directory @var{dir}. If @var{dir} is not specified (only possible with the long option -...@option{--tempdir}) or is the empty string, use the value of +...@option{--tmpdir}) or is the empty string, use the value of @env{TMPDIR} if available, otherwise use @samp{/tmp}. If this is specified, @var{template} must not be absolute. However, @var{template} can still contain slashes, although intermediate