Re: [Refdb-devel] refdb-backup portability and design

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Markus Hoenicka writes:
 > [ "${backup_dir:0:1}" != "/" ] && \
 > 
 > Can you work around this?
 > 

ok, while we're at it... For testing purposes I asked bash to run the
script and bumped into another portability issue. This time it's the
mktemp implementations. On the BSDs, mktemp expects either a filename
pattern or a prefix to construct the filename. Calling it without an
argument doesn't work. The following examples are from the FreeBSD
mktemp man page and show the two usages allowed here:

 TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX`

The 'X'es will be replaced by characters to make the name unique.

 tempfoo=`basename $0`
 TMPFILE=`mktemp -t ${tempfoo}`

The value of ${tempfoo} will be used as a prefix for the unique
filename.

Does Linux support one of these usages?

regards,
Markus

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