Eric Blake wrote: > git recently started using mkstemps on systems that provide it (new enough > Solaris has it in <stdlib.h>, some BSD have it in <unistd.h> even though > it is not standardized,
Indeed, the platforms that have it are: OpenBSD >= 2.4, FreeBSD >= 2.4, MacOS X [1], OpenSolaris [2]. > I've just proposed adding it to Cygwin via newlib). The general idea of > creating temporary files with a known suffix is nice. It can also be done by using mkdtemp and then creating a file with arbitrary name in the temporary directory. That approach is also more extensible: It allows not only the suffix, but the entire file name to be a given one. It keeps several temporary files from a single process together. It reduces the amount of directory entries in /tmp. > Should we modify tempname.c's gen_tempname to also provide the > ability to implement mkstemps? If you find this function worth using, no objection. Bruno [1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/mkstemps.3.html [2] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2243/mkstemps-3c?a=view
