X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:32:49 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mkstemps Message-ID: <20090628103249.GX30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A46A3AB.2060604@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A46A3AB.2060604@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jun 27 16:56, Eric Blake wrote: > It would be nice to have mkstemps in cygwin. In particular, git would > like to use it, because it is often the case that a temporary file should > have the same extension as what it is being modified from, for tools that > care about file suffix. I've proposed adding it to newlib, but cygwin > doesn't use newlib's mktemp.c, and I'm not sure whether the changes are > trivial enough for me to do for cygwin (where I don't have copyright on > file), so I'm floating this out there to see if anyone else is willing to > write the patch. Well, if your patch is accepted in newlib, it should be not much of a problem to tweak it slightly for inclusion into Cygwin, even if you're doing the tweak... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple