[#STR-480] mkstemp: some systems restrict the number of tmp files per process

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Reported by Duraid Madina for HP-UX.

See also:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00125.html

Coreutils is GPL (Stratego/XT is LGPL), so I think we cannot just use their autoconf check and replacement function, unfortunately ...

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Reported by Duraid Madina for HP-UX. See also: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00125.html Coreutils is GPL (Stratego/XT is LGPL), so I think we cannot just use their autoconf check and replacement function, unfortunately ...

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Martin Bravenboer [2005-12-08 11:31]

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2001-10/msg00032.html

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Martin Bravenboer [2005-12-08 11:32]

The autoconf check in coreutils looks pretty good and can be used (not convered by GPL as far as I can see). The replacement function is GPL, but that should not be too difficult if we just don't require it to be safe (then tempname can be used, I guess)

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Martin Bravenboer [2005-12-13 10:06]

mkstemp replacement submitted bu Duraid.

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Martin Bravenboer [2005-12-14 14:02]

Applied the patch and added autoconfiguration stuff.