On 10/17/2016 11:46 PM, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:56:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Second, your claim that things are "spuriously bad if $RANDOM does not
>> exist" is false. Look at the full context:
>>
>> tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$
>>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 06:24:03AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/17/2016 11:46 PM, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:56:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Second, your claim that things are "spuriously bad if $RANDOM does not
> >> exist" is false. Look at the full context:
>
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:56:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> Second, your claim that things are "spuriously bad if $RANDOM does not
> exist" is false. Look at the full context:
>
> tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$
> trap 'ret=$?; rmdir "$tmpdir/d" "$tmpdir"
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:56:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> You're not the first person to complain that $RANDOM is a bashism, and
> this is not the first time we've had to retort that our use of $RANDOM
> is a nicety, but not a necessity, and that the code is perfectly safe
> and tested on
On 10/17/2016 03:58 PM, co...@sdf.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in build-aux/install-sh scriptversion=2016-01-11.22 line 327
> tmpdir=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/ins$RANDOM-$$
> ... things which are spuriously bad if $RANDOM does not exist ...
Thanks for the report. However, you've made two mistakes.
First, gnulib
