On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Eric Blake<e...@byu.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Bruce Korb on 6/29/2009 2:55 PM: >> Silly me, I just have to ask (rhetorically): Why is this nice, new >> interface cooked up and then left unfinished. It needs "mkdtemps", too, yes? >> Just for symmetry, if nothing else.... > > Ask the BSD folks who originally designed mkstemps? :) > In reality, though, I > seldom see directory names where an extension is important, but with > regular files, there are quite a few programs that depend on the name of > the extension.
cc/gcc, for example? > Thus, creating a temporary file with a known extension is > more common than a temporary directory with a known extension. I like symmetry, I guess. The easier it is to guess correctly (due to symmetry and other properties), the fewer exceptions one has to remember, and the better I like it. > At any rate, let's see whether we get any feedback from glibc: > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10349 Thanks, Eric. Cheers - Bruce
