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Subject:	Re: tmpfile in DJGPP
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Date:	Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
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> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, I wrote:
> 
> > That rant wasn't meant to target you, personally.  I never saw anything 
> > but good will and cooperation from you, when DJGPP was concerned.
> 
> For those who might not know it: Alain is the maintainer of GNU Grep
> and inetutils.

[[blushing]]
(mais il ne fallait pas, je suis embarasse' ;-)
Ok maybe _2_ beers and I'll get Franc,ois P. to bring the wine 8), if
you ever near Montreal/Ottawa.
[[blushing]]

Really my newest love is GNU mailutils, it's been keeping me awake lately.
The layout of the code is a little unusual; OO within C.  I'm not sure
it will fly with the rest of the world.
One of the thing with emails is that lots of temporary files maybe created
to contain messages and you want to create them securely, hence my original
question.

POSIX, may not be the "be all", but most maintainers that I've work with
(within GNU/FSF) use it as a reference, when questionnable behaviours are
raised. And most GNU *utils will try to comply to POSIX.2, and it is
certainly the best approach; to standardize with a well-known and accepted
std.

But all that said, I'm certainly sympathic to the points that were brought
forward in this discussion.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on n'est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!

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