Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 17:17:28 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: mkstemp.c
In-Reply-To:	<B0000028948@stargate.astr.lu.lv>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980503171653.19648A@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> For gcc I think we should avoid putting temporary directory on
> network drive if possible.

You cannot rely on people to endure such a requirement.  Somebody,
someday will do the unthinkable, and it is not nice for GCC to fail
then.

But I think your suggestion is safe enough, so I don't think we should
worry too much about that.

> In suggested version (errno != ENOENT) program can go in unnecessary
> loop on some I/O problem. Perhaps it would be better to post some test
> example for checking this in different systems and ask to send the results.

It never hurts to ask people to test and report results.  So please go
ahead and ask them.

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