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| author | Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 2024-10-27 16:33:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 2024-10-27 16:36:31 +0000 |
| commit | 93181e38342fc48eb95f83842156be478a4a6f01 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bad60b260262299736ce4a44f584d2277f9e8f2 | |
| parent | d08713dcdb158b2f55a885e7cfbbe410272c55a2 (diff) | |
| download | src-93181e38342fc48eb95f83842156be478a4a6f01.tar.gz src-93181e38342fc48eb95f83842156be478a4a6f01.zip | |
mktemp(1): bring the documentation up to date with best practice
Using short temp filenames as /tmp/temp.XXXX (4 or 6 X) was probably ok
20 years ago, but not anymore. Best practice is to use 10 X. Given that our
users often copy & paste examples from our manual pages we need to
update the documentation.
PR: 261437
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 index 68a5a54aa5c5..063f25f216dc 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ any file name with some number of .Ql X Ns s appended to it, for example -.Pa /tmp/temp.XXXX . +.Pa /tmp/temp.XXXXXXXXXX . The trailing .Ql X Ns s are replaced with the current process number and/or a @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ where the script should quit if it cannot get a safe temporary file. .Bd -literal -offset indent tempfoo=`basename $0` -TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX` || exit 1 +TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1 echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE .Ed .Pp @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE In this case, we want the script to catch the error itself. .Bd -literal -offset indent tempfoo=`basename $0` -TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX` +TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXXXXXX` if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..." exit 1 |