Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;)

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

> No, you have to:

How does this compare with the one I posted about 1 hour 30
minuts ago:

	tmp=${TMPDIR-/tmp}
	tmp=$tmp/gitdiff-do.$RANDOM.$RANDOM.$RANDOM.$$
	(umask 077 && mkdir $tmp) || {
		echo "Could not create temporary directory! Exiting." 1>&2 
		exit 1
	}
	t=$tmp/tmp
	trap 'rm -fr $tmp; trap 0; exit 0' 0 1 2 3 15

derived from the reference that Dave Jones provided?

> create it in O_EXCL mode,

What can one do that and hold that O_EXCL from within bash?

> There are thousands of examples of how to do this with bash.

Care to provide one?

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