Re: [PATCH 1/1] Support mkdtemp via mkdtemp! and scm_mkdtemp

[Rob Browning]

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> Since mkdtemp already returns a string of the new directory name,
> it might be more scheme-like to not modify the input string, and instead
> just return the new directory name.

Perhaps, though I was just matching the existing semantics of guile
mkstemp, i.e. figured maybe they should behave the same.

> Also, I don't know how universal mkdtemp is. It does exist in Linux and
> OpenBSD, but, I'm not sure about all platforms. So a configure check
> might not be amiss.

Yeah I wondered, though it is at least POSIX:

  https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkdtemp.html

Not sure what our current bar is for checks.

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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