[Dev-luatex] mkstemp or similar in lua(tex)

[Norbert Preining]

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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