mkstemps

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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