Hi William, * William Pursell wrote on Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:57:50AM CEST: > Eric Blake wrote: >> >> Furthermore, your patch still has some portability problems. For example, >> ... you cannot rely on the existence of mktemp. > > I don't want to consume a lot of your time answering ignorant > questions from a newbie, but why is it that AS_TMPDIR is > able to use mktemp?
It provides an alternative method if mktemp did not provide a name. Cheers, Ralf
