Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:55:30AM +0200, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >> > >> >/usr/bin already has an mktemp. How does it differ from the GNU > >> >version? Ah, there's an option conflict, sadly (-u is "--dry-run" in > >> >GNU, but "unsafe operation" in Solaris). > >> > >> Solaris' mktemp takes after the OpenBSD mktemp. > > > >What is the point of the Solaris mktemp(1) -u option though? Why would > >anyone choose "unsafe operation"? > > It came from OpenBSD. > > I can understand the reason, though, you can't always want to create a > file, you may want an unique value: > > unique=$(mktemp -u XXXXXX)
Ok... that makes sense... :-) Erm... what is the stabilty state of "-u" - wasn't it "Commited Obsolete" ? If that's the case it may be nice to get rid of the "Obsolete" and poke the GNU coreutils maintainers to rename the "dryrun" option to something else (I'll poke AST+BSD upstream to do the same for their "mktemp" command (e.g. clarify documentation)). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
