Re: mkstemps is not listed alphabetically in the manual

2021-08-22 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 8/22/21 11:54 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Hi, > > On > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Glibc-stdlib_002eh.html > the entry for 'mkstemps' is out of alphabetical order. This is confusing. > > (I had downloaded the PDF of the manual, searched for mkstemps, paged up a >

Re: mkstemps

2009-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 6/30/2009 6:12 AM: > Thus, creating a temporary file with a known extension is > more common than a temporary directory with a known extension. > > At any rate, let's see whether we get any feedback from glibc: > http://sour

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-30 Thread Bruce Korb
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Bruce Korb on 6/29/2009 2:55 PM: >> Silly me, I just have to ask (rhetorically):  Why is this nice, new >> interface cooked up and then left unfinished.  It needs "mkdtemps", too, y

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruce Korb on 6/29/2009 2:55 PM: > Silly me, I just have to ask (rhetorically): Why is this nice, new > interface cooked up and then left unfinished. It needs "mkdtemps", too, yes? > Just for symmetry, if nothing else Ask the BSD fo

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-29 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Jim, et al., On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I read this: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2243/mkstemps-3c?a=view > >      int mkstemps(char *template, int slen); >      ... > >    Description >      ... > >      The mkstemps() function behaves the same as mkstemp(),

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Blake
Bruno Haible clisp.org> writes: > > git recently started using mkstemps on systems that provide it (new enough > > Solaris has it in , some BSD have it in even though > > it is not standardized, > > Indeed, the platforms that have it are: OpenBSD >= 2.4, FreeBSD >= 2.4, > MacOS X [1], OpenSolar

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > git recently started using mkstemps on systems that provide it (new enough > Solaris has it in , some BSD have it in 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 propose

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > I read this: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2243/mkstemps-3c?a=view > > int mkstemps(char *template, int slen); > ... > > Description > ... > > The mkstemps() function behaves the same as mkstemp(), except it > permit

Re: mkstemps

2009-06-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > git recently started using mkstemps on systems that provide it (new enough > Solaris has it in , some BSD have it in even though > it is not standardized, I've just proposed adding it to Cygwin via > newlib). The general idea of creating temporary files with a known suffix > i