On Jun 27 16:56, Eric Blake wrote: > It would be nice to have mkstemps in cygwin. In particular, git would > like to use it, because it is often the case that a temporary file should > have the same extension as what it is being modified from, for tools that > care about file suffix. I've proposed adding it to newlib, but cygwin > doesn't use newlib's mktemp.c, and I'm not sure whether the changes are > trivial enough for me to do for cygwin (where I don't have copyright on > file), so I'm floating this out there to see if anyone else is willing to > write the patch.
Well, if your patch is accepted in newlib, it should be not much of a problem to tweak it slightly for inclusion into Cygwin, even if you're doing the tweak... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple