Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino said the following on 14.08.2007 21:44:
> This is a wrapper for mkstemp() that performs error checking and
> calls die() when an error occur.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
> ---
>  git-compat-util.h |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
> index 362e040..ca0a597 100644
> --- a/git-compat-util.h
> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
> @@ -303,6 +303,16 @@ static inline FILE *xfdopen(int fd, const char *mode)
>  	return stream;
>  }
>  
> +static inline int xmkstemp(char *template)
> +{
> +	int fd;
> +
> +	fd = mkstemp(template);
> +	if (fd < 0)
> +		die("Unable to create temporary file: %s", strerror(errno));
> +	return fd;
> +}
> +
>  static inline size_t xsize_t(off_t len)
>  {
>  	return (size_t)len;

This functions needs to be further down in the file for
MinGW builds, since mkstemp() is forward declared later
in the file. So, something like this:

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 9e075b7..f9ba8b0 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -477,4 +477,14 @@ extern __attribute__((noreturn)) int git_exit(int code);

 #endif /* __MINGW32__ */

+static inline int xmkstemp(char *template)
+{
+       int fd;
+
+       fd = mkstemp(template);
+       if (fd < 0)
+               die("Unable to create temporary file: %s", strerror(errno));
+       return fd;
+}
+
 #endif

-- 
.marius