On 2017-05-01 14:33:56, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Paul, > > thanks for the bug report. > > Paul Wise wrote: >> It appears that this is the right way to create directories: >> >> mktemp -d -t dman.XXXXXX > > Nope. The mktemp man page says about "-t": "interpret TEMPLATE as a > single file name component, relative to a directory: $TMPDIR". > > So I'll likely go with "-p" instead: "interpret TEMPLATE relative to > DIR; if DIR is not specified, use $TMPDIR if set, else /tmp. With this > option, TEMPLATE must not be an absolute name; unlike with -t, > TEMPLATE may contain slashes, but mktemp creates only the final > component"
Quite frankly, at this point, I'm getting dangerously close to my "100 lines maximum for shell scripts" rule (86 lines). With Ubuntu support coming, I really wonder if we shouldn't rewrite this in a proper language (e.g. python or go) that doesn't have those kind of idiosyncracies: https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/57#issuecomment-298235767 When we get to string interpolation through eval is pretty much where I give up on shell anyways. ;) That said, the agreement we had was to patch man.c instead of doing this, originally, so maybe it's a bad idea to do a rewrite at this stage... a. -- Uncompromising war resistance and refusal to do military service under any circumstances. - Albert Einstein
