Re: [Dev-luatex] mkstemp or similar in lua(tex)
Hi Taco,
On Sa, 17 Nov 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >Frank Küster has rewritten texdoc in luatex and now it really works much
> >better than the original one.
>
> Good to here that!
Well, searching the whole disk with find when we have ls-R databases was
a strange approach, no? The next Debian packages of luatex (as soon as
you release a new beta ;-) will ship the lua version of texdoc instead
of the default texlive texdoc.
> >Furthermore, a call to securly create a tmp dir would be nice, too.
>
> I agree, and will happily add it. mkstemp() doesn't help though,
> as it only works for files. I'll have to borrow or write a version
> of BSD's mkdtemp, somehow.
The is probably the best idea, since relying on a lib function which
might not exist is a problem.
Best wishes
Norbert
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