On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:50:43AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:43 GMT > > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > > > Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. > > > > Not so. I looked and tried on many systems. > > BSD, Solaris, ... > > > > As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable > > GNU/Unix-ish environment. > > Maybe it is, but it doesn't have mktemp. That's a fact.
Are you aware of the mingw people turning down a request to ad mktemp? If not, maybe it would be worth asking them to add it? -- Pat
