From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:20:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder
Message-ID: <kauhoq$g9n$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v623x6xvv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Use mktemp to create the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge.
>> This keeps it out of the current directory.
>>
>> Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
>> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> I consider this a final finishing touch on a new 1.8.1 feature,
>> so hopefully we can get this in before 1.8.1.
>
> Does everybody have mktemp(1), which is not even in POSIX.1?

HP-NonStop doesn't have it, unless you're on the latest release, which added 
GNU coreutils.

Bye, Jojo