Hi! I am currently trying to fix the "only open" wishlist bug for metamail. (I have fixed the rest and tryed to get a sponsor already and I am in the nm - queue ).
The problem is that metamail makes use of mkstemp and it leaves tmp files behind, when it is invoked with a multipart mime message. So you can see them in /tmp named mm.XXXXXX . My problem now is that it is hardly to track where that tmp-files are really created and I can hardly jugde how to fix that properly when I discover where the problem originates from. So I have two choices: 1) I could add each tmp file to a list and clean it up before the program leaves. (that would not require to touch even a single line of code, but I would have to add some lines that do that) 2) I could change the mkstemp code to use tmpfile(), but then I would have to change much more of the original code and it would be much more likely to introduce new bugs. Personally I would like to do 1, but 2 seams to be much *cleaner*. I dislike kludges, but upstream isn't there anymore (I just tried to email the upstream maintainer and didn't do any further research), so I have nobody else than me to ask what the source really does (and what it is supposed to do). -- kind regards, Michael Moerz
