> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:10:42 +0100 > From: John Darrington <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > These days (years), mktemp should surely be > part of that. Any shell script that wants to create temporary files > safely should be using it, after all. > > As you can tell, I am not enthusiastic about complicating about our > sources with emulating something that is commonly available everywhere > but Windows. > > Presumably you have checked to see if Gnulib can provide such an emulation?
Gnulib provides replacements for missing or faulty library functions. We are talking about 'mktemp' the command, not the library function.
