Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW2, we could use subdirectories named after the test name rather than > using the PID. However, I've found myself running the same test in > parallel sometimes: > make check TESTS=foo.test # Stop with C^Z, then run same command again > > and it causes weird output if you later `fg' the first `make'. Arguably > this is PEBCAK. So really if you don't like using the PID, please speak > up, I'm all open here.
Hi Ralf, I've considered and rejected both, partly because in some unusual cases I've had to create directories in directories that are also writable by others. Instead, I used the mkdtemp script that I recently removed from coreutils: there, I can now rely on the mktemp binary instead. Using mkdtemp here is almost certainly overkill here, but who knows...
