Re: [Bashburn-info] DANGER, DANGER Will Robinson... we have a big issue

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:23:50 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> It could be in /tmp but it really doesn't matter:
> 
> 1. We cp then rm instead of mv. If we did an mv then we might have to 
> worry if the directory that the tmpfile was in was in a different 
> partition than the current dir.
> 
> 2. The size of the file is measured in O(<1k) so it doesn't matter
> from that end either.
> 
> The important thing is that mktemp should actually be given a
> template for what the file should be called. If there's a problem
> that needs to be debugged, then we know which file to look at.

OK, I see.

BTW, can you please explain what you done here?

In config/apply_options.sh

There is:

typeset bbtempfile=$(mktemp)

and later...

bbtempfile=$(mktemp bashburn_apply_opts.XXXXXX)

Isn't the first assignment redundant?

Nick
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