Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: > Since mkdtemp already returns a string of the new directory name, > it might be more scheme-like to not modify the input string, and instead > just return the new directory name.
Perhaps, though I was just matching the existing semantics of guile mkstemp, i.e. figured maybe they should behave the same. > Also, I don't know how universal mkdtemp is. It does exist in Linux and > OpenBSD, but, I'm not sure about all platforms. So a configure check > might not be amiss. Yeah I wondered, though it is at least POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkdtemp.html Not sure what our current bar is for checks. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4