On 27 August 2017 at 20:16, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017, at 13:48, Thomas Levine wrote: >> * mktemp is not portable; you could use something like the date and >> process identifier ($$) to create a portable temporary file. >> (I am actually still curious as to whether there is a reasonable >> portable approach that is less sloppy than this.) > > I'm not sure the best way to do that or if it's worth the extra > complication. It is unfortunate that POSIX doesn't have mktemp or a > command to do the same thing. However, mktemp seems to be very widely > available. It is in GNU coreutils (i.e. Gnu/Linux), OpenBSD, NetBSD, > FreeBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix.
I would not bother about some exotic portability issues with mktemp. -Anselm
