binutils/bucomm.c 1.13 commit

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Federico,

>   i'm trying to find why this was reverted, but couldn't. the
> mailing list shows no clue. perhaps i'm looking in the wrong place?
>    anyway, can anyone explain me why binutils/bucomm.c was changed
> back to use mktemp? the commit comment is to my understanding
> wrong.

The change was made by H.J.Lu.  The ChangeLog has this entry:

  2001-11-29  H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>

	* bucomm.c (make_tempname): Revert the changes made on
	2001-11-14 and 2001-11-12. They won't work with directories.

and it was made in response to this email (and its follow ons) in the
mailing list archive:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00654.html

Cheers
        Nick