On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:31:11AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Better, use mktemp(1). The thread testing script already does it IIRC.
>
> There are only two uses of mktemp(1) in our source tree: configure and
> config.guess. Both were gotten from elsewhere, and both jump through
> some seriously unreadable hoops in order to achieve allegedly-portable
> behavior.
Huh, right. I was remembering mkstemp(3), which is used in the thread
test (which is not a script after all ...)
config.guess usage surely is ugly ...
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Porque francamente, si para saber manejarse a uno mismo hubiera que
rendir examen... ¿Quién es el machito que tendría carnet?" (Mafalda)
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