From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:10:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Bugfix for AIX tmpfile creation
Message-ID: <7viqvzg33c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806231552510.2926@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, we have quite a few calls to mkstemp(), so adding the workaround to
>> this specific call site does not scale well as a fix, I am afraid.
>
> All other callers of mkstemp() always rewrite the _entire_ path and don't 
> care about the result after failure (since it failed)

Yeah, I realize I grepped wrong X-<.