On Thursday 05 June 2008 10:49, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > i know at least 4 implementations out there that are > > > completely different. the only thing ive found in common is that simply > > > doing `mktemp` results in a filename. > > > > Well, that's the problem I want to solve: busybox's one does not do it > > (yet). Help he here - does bare "mktemp" just emit a new /tmp/SOMETHING > > filename or does it also create this file (with zero size I suppose)? Also, > > is mktemp on your machine from your distro? If yes, which distro/version is > > it? (I will document it in bbox source) > > if you consider the Linux case, the three versions that have existed all have > this behavior. > old: mktemp in debianutils > not-so-old: mktemp in the mktemp package > everyone-should-be-using-today: mktemp from coreutils
None of the following: coreutils-5.2.1 coreutils-6.3 coreutils-6.8 coreutils-6.9 has mktemp applet, er, program. Can you interrogate yours where the hell it come from? mktemp --help, mktemp --version, strings /usr/bin/mktemp? -- vda _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
