From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:46:58 -0700 Organization: SGI Message-ID: <20050416164658.05bebed3.pj@sgi.com> References: <20050416232749.23430.93360.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com> <20050416233626.GV9461@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, pasky@ucw.cz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 17 01:44:44 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMwxr-0005d7-0o for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:44:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbVDPXsT (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:48:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261206AbVDPXsT (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:48:19 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:28884 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261205AbVDPXsR (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:48:17 -0400 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by omx2.sgi.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id j3H1R99u007800; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:27:19 -0700 Received: from vpn2 (mtv-vpn-hw-pj-2.corp.sgi.com [134.15.25.219]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id j3GNl2lU15240957; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:47:02 -0700 (PDT) To: Jan-Benedict Glaw In-Reply-To: <20050416233626.GV9461@lug-owl.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > /usr/tmp/ ??? Hey, /usr may be mounted read-only! Why not just use /tmp ? Sure - that's fine to change. Those that care will have TMPDIR set anyway. I probably made that choice of /usr/tmp for the fallback 10 or 20 years ago, and have never had reason to revisit it. I have long forgotten why I made that choice. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401