On 2015-02-18 15:50 -0200, Deny Dias wrote: > Hi, > > GNU Coreutils (e.g. coreutils-8.23) imposes a limit of exactly six (6) X's to > define a valid template. If this limit is not observed when passing arguments > to > mktemp, it throws an error: > > mktemp: cannot create temp file /dev/shm/pass.XXXXXXXD2gHRw/XXXXX: \ > Invalid argument
I can see no such limitation in coreutils 8.23. Are you sure you are invoking the coreutils mktemp? And indeed, on Debian, doing the following works just fine: $ mktemp /tmp/foo-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /tmp/foo-IsM2YQaLtch45i2 > This is what 'man mktemp' says about the template size in such systems: > > DESCRIPTION > ...The template may be any filename with six (6) `Xs' appended to it, for > example /tmp/tfile.XXXXXX. If no template is specified a default of > tmp.XXXXXX > is used and the -t flag is implied (see below)... coreutils-8.23$ grep -Fr 'six (6)' * gave me nothing... The help text in mktemp.c says the following: | TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in last component. | If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX, and --tmpdir is implied. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | Olof Johansson http://stdlib.se/ | | irc: zibri https://github.com/olof | --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Password-Store mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/password-store
