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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49f6849 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +@node mkstemp +@section @code{mkstemp} +@findex mkstemp + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkstemp.html} + +Gnulib module: mkstemp + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdlib.h>} +on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.3. +@item +On some platforms (HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1), mkstemp has a silly +limit that it can create no more than 26 files from a given template. On +OSF/1 4.0f, it can create only 32 files per process. +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkstemp} may not work +correctly to create files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@item +On some older platforms, @code{mkstemp} can create a world or group +writable or readable file, if you haven't set the process umask to +077. This is a security risk. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize + +The gnulib module @code{clean-temp} can create temporary files that will not +be left behind after signals such as SIGINT. |