On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:23:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:03:37 -0400
> > 
> > I made a fix for another system where tempname also is broken, in 2.8.5dev.4
> > (actually for mkstemp - would need more information to see if the fix isn't
> > general enough).
> > 
> <SIGH>  OS X substitutes PID for the XXXXXX and attempts to create the
> file.  If creation fails, it substitutes a0, b0, ..., z0, aa, ba, ..., zz
> for the first two digits of PID until it succeeds in creating a unique file.
> Unfortunately, Lynx renames the generated file, so  mkstemp() never needs
> to roll ahead to the next name.  </SIGH>

iirc, Lynx renames the file to force suffix-rule behavior when reading it.  I
suppose that could be fixed.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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