So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:27:24PM +0200:
> What a shame for Linux: You don't need it!
What a shame for you: You don't get it!
The mktemp binary is nothing more than a wrapper to the C function mktemp,
which conforms to BSD 4.3, at least according to mktemp(3).
> The main UNIX design goal is not to add useless gicks....
Define useless... I find it quite useful to have a at least somewhat hard
to predict filename, instead of just /tmp/xxx.1, /tmp/xxx.2, /tmp/xxx.3...
> Well UNIX _allows_ you to be creative: use /tmp/xx.$$.someting
This inferior way is also present in bash.
> And it is nice to see how development done on Linux yields in nonportable
> results without reason.
And it's nice to see that no progress should be made just because some sh's
are still in the stoneage.
Alexander Skwar
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