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

[Rob Browning]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> 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.

...mkstemp! I meant, and I think I might still somewhat favor keeping
the correspondence between a mkstemp! and mkdtemp! that have the same
semantics, and more or less directly match their POSIX functions.

Though if we thought it was worth it, I suppose we could also provide
trivial mkstemp and mkdtemp wrappers (without the exclamation points),
that do the extra copy for you.

-- 
Rob Browning
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