On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 21:37 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/7/22 05:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'd appreciate a more high-level description of the idea of the
> > change, in addition to the gory details.
>
> I gave it a shot in the attached patch, which is an improved version
> of the previous
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 21:23:53 -0700
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert
>
> On 2022-10-08 21:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I meant the "b" part, not the "+" part. On systems where that changes
> > the bytestream written to the file, the change might require a
> > suitable change where w
On 2022-10-08 21:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I meant the "b" part, not the "+" part. On systems where that changes
the bytestream written to the file, the change might require a
suitable change where we read that stuff.
If I understand things correctly the code was formerly using tmpfile
which d
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 15:22:50 -0700
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert
>
> On 2022-10-08 00:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> tmpfile uses "wb+" (POSIX requires this) and we should be consistent in
> >> all the paths that create temporary FILE *. The attached patch adds a
> >> comment abou
On 2022-10-08 00:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
tmpfile uses "wb+" (POSIX requires this) and we should be consistent in
all the paths that create temporary FILE *. The attached patch adds a
comment about this.
I don't remember: where is this temporary file read?
It's read by a different process (for
> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:37:24 -0700
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert
>
> > I'd appreciate a more high-level description of the idea of the
> > change, in addition to the gory details.
>
> I gave it a shot in the attached patch, which is an improved version of
> the previous patch.
492ed0bdd4151e6d14599b70719526b6086ed509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:31:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix some temp file issues
This patch was prompted by a linker warning "warning: the use of
`mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' or `mkd
> From: Paul Eggert
> Cc: Paul Eggert
> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:02:25 -0700
>
> This patch was prompted by a linker warning "warning: the use of
> `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' or `mkdtemp'" on
> Fedora 36. It also fixes a few unlikely bugs and simplifies the
> code in a couple
This patch was prompted by a linker warning "warning: the use of
`mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' or `mkdtemp'" on
Fedora 36. It also fixes a few unlikely bugs and simplifies the
code in a couple of places.
* src/misc.c (get_tmpdir): Now extern, for os_anontmp.
(get_tmpbase): New functi
