On Mar 27, 2000, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>my proposal is to support `mktemp -d', and only `mktemp -d', no
>juggling with mktemp for each file.
>If the system on which Autoconf runs does not support `mktemp -d',
>then (umask 077 && mkdir $$).
> That sounds quite re
From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Mar 2000 17:25:20 +0200
my proposal is to support `mktemp -d', and only `mktemp -d', no
juggling with mktemp for each file.
If the system on which Autoconf runs does not support `mktemp -d',
then (umask 077 && mkdir $$).
That so
Hi!
I've been thinking of the security changes suggested for the
executables of Autoconf (not configure). I don't like it because
there is one call to mktemp for *each* temp file. As an shell script
author, I dislike this very much: it pollutes the scripts, and in
addition, it makes debugging
