> No, you have to: How does this compare with the one I posted about 1 hour 30 minuts ago:
tmp=${TMPDIR-/tmp} tmp=$tmp/gitdiff-do.$RANDOM.$RANDOM.$RANDOM.$$ (umask 077 && mkdir $tmp) || { echo "Could not create temporary directory! Exiting." 1>&2 exit 1 } t=$tmp/tmp trap 'rm -fr $tmp; trap 0; exit 0' 0 1 2 3 15 derived from the reference that Dave Jones provided? > create it in O_EXCL mode, What can one do that and hold that O_EXCL from within bash? > There are thousands of examples of how to do this with bash. Care to provide one? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html