>On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 03:57:00PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I think this is a silly solution, and the documentation is clear >> enough. >The manual page certainly is clear enough but the current error message >is logically wrong, as there are sufficient Xs *in* `XXXXXXs' but just >not at the end of it, call it nitpicking if you will.
Disagree. It is logically correct according to the definition of a mktemp template. If you put XXXXX elsewhere it is not template material. If the *programmer* didn't understand what a template was and screwed it up, providing the *application user* with detailed information isn't useful. If the programmer is that user, the terse message is enough to indicate "hey moron, go study" And now, you want to come up with a 40 character snippet of text which will inform the user of the software that the programmer didn't follow the rules.. And let me guess, soon you'll find another fundamental concept easily learned in the manual page, and want to sneak it into the error message also? Sorry, that's not how it works. Short firm error messages provide a strong hint that further study is needed. Unix is a terse operating system. It is considered a strength.
