Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Eric Blake <[email protected]> > () Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:59 -0700 > > Seems like it might be a reasonable thing to add to mktemp(1). But > mktemp already generates 0600 by default. > > That's fine as it is, then. No change needed. > > What does tempfile(1) do that mktemp(1) does not? > > Not sure. > > Anyway, i will be using mktemp in rcsfreeze.sh. Thanks for the pointer. > To close, attached is a (tiny change) doc patch that likewise uses mktemp.
Thanks for the patch. I've pushed it with a tweaked title. >From 141645d9c60d547e92a4f4a8c1a3dd8474a8205e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:34:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: use mktemp, not tempfile, in a shred usage example * doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Use mktemp(1) instead of Debian-specific tempfile(1). --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 3e7a698..34ccf5a 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8718,7 +8718,7 @@ shred invocation For example: @example -i=`tempfile -m 0600` +i=`mktemp` exec 3<>"$i" rm -- "$i" echo "Hello, world" >&3 -- 1.7.0.2.393.gfb6b
