From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:18:02 -0700 Organization: SGI Message-ID: <20050416181802.0400bb3f.pj@sgi.com> References: <20050416232749.23430.93360.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com> <20050416233724.GP19099@pasky.ji.cz> <20050416170221.38b3e66c.pj@sgi.com> <20050417003325.GA15608@redhat.com> <20050417025108.G2442@banaan.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davej@redhat.com, pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org, mj@ucw.cz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 17 03:15:53 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMyO8-0002XR-A5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:15:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261233AbVDQBTg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:19:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbVDQBTf (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:19:35 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:54763 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261233AbVDQBTe (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:19:34 -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 j3H2wK98025104; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:58:30 -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 j3H1I7lU15261961; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:18:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Erik van Konijnenburg In-Reply-To: <20050417025108.G2442@banaan.localdomain> 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 Erik wrote: > How about putting using .git/tmp.$$ or similar as tempfile? One could, but best to normally honor the users TMPDIR setting. Could one 'git diff' a readonly git repository? Perhaps someone has a reason for putting their tmp files where they choose - say a local file system in a heavy NFS environment. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401