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]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
