On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I just noticed that /bin/updatedb (from findutils) and /bin/bzdiff (from
> > bzip2) use "tempfile", which is non-POSIX, and is missing under Cygwin.
>
> Noted, thanks. Will fix in next release.
Chuck,
FWIW, I already have the fix, and asked the upstream maintainer whether
he'll accept patches. Just in case, the patch is attached.
HTH,
Igor
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"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing
whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw--- bzdiff-orig 2003-08-09 02:35:45.000000000 -0400
+++ bzdiff 2004-08-26 15:24:33.263466500 -0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if test -z "$FILES"; then
echo "Usage: $prog [${comp}_options] file [file]"
exit 1
fi
-tmp=`tempfile -d /tmp -p bz` || {
+tmp=`mktemp /tmp/bzXXXXXX || tempfile -d /tmp -p bz || echo /tmp/bz$$` || {
echo 'cannot create a temporary file' >&2
exit 1
}
