STR-480: mkstemp: some systems restrict the number of tmp files per process
Reported by Duraid Madina for HP-UX.
See also:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00125.htmlCoreutils is GPL (Stratego/XT is LGPL), so I think we cannot just use their autoconf check and replacement function, unfortunately …
Submitted on 8 December 2005 at 12:23
Issue Log
On 8 December 2005 at 12:31 Jira commented:
STR-480, martin:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2001-10/msg00032.html
On 8 December 2005 at 12:32 Jira commented:
STR-480, martin:
The autoconf check in coreutils looks pretty good and can be used (not convered by GPL as far as I can see). The replacement function is GPL, but that should not be too difficult if we just don’t require it to be safe (then tempname can be used, I guess)
On 13 December 2005 at 11:06 Jira commented:
STR-480, martin:
mkstemp replacement submitted bu Duraid.
On 14 December 2005 at 15:02 Jira commented:
STR-480, martin:
Applied the patch and added autoconfiguration stuff.
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