Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > [External Email. Be cautious of content] > > > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:19:10 -0800 > From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > | The open in mkstemp can fail due to EINTR. > | That's the only reason I see for blocking signals. > > Surely the reason would have been to avoid leaving stray temp files > lying around if a signal were to arrive between creating the temp > file and unlinking it (in the !debug case when it is unlinked) ?
That is certainly a valid reason to have done so.
