From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 06:27:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996AF106566B for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285168FC17 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11566 invoked by uid 399); 26 Feb 2010 06:27:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 26 Feb 2010 06:27:43 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:27:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1002252100oc64434ci5f6783ff10a9f0ea@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <7d6fde3d1002251850m3d32904emece0182e905b84c5@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d1002252100oc64434ci5f6783ff10a9f0ea@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: mktemp(1) in /tmp or $PWD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:27:44 -0000 On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: > So what I did was I wrote up a patch to be *I know... here it comes* > more like GNU coreutils' copy of mktemp. What's the motivation for this? I'm a little confused about why we'd want to change this when the -t option already exists. Also, does POSIX say anything about what the default should be? Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso