tag 17528 notabug thanks On 05/19/2014 07:27 AM, Matthieu Fronton wrote: > Hello, > > First i'd like to apologize because this message is about for a new feature > proposal, not a bug. > I send it to the only mail I have found in the man page. Sorry for that.
One person's feature request is another person's bug for missing functionality, so you mailed the correct place. > > I just wanted to propose to add the last generate temporary file's full path > in a predefined environment variable. Umm, how do you propose to do that? Child processes cannot modify the environment of the parent. The only way to invoke mktemp is by spawning a child process - but that means that there is no way for mktemp to modify a predefined environment variable. That is, unless you are proposing to add a new shell builtin (so that a child process is not spawned), but then your patch would need to be against the shell (we don't maintain the shell here in coreutils). > I can create a patch or send a pull request but I'll first need to know > where your source code is and how can we contribute, even for these kind of > tiny little feature. You are welcome to try and write a patch, but it sounds fundamentally futile based on how environment variables work. As such, I'm going to close this request as not a bug, but feel free to continue replying on this thread if you have more questions or comments. Read this for more ideas about contributing other patches: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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