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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-13 17:22:11 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-13 17:22:11 +0000
commit0cf349a642ef565bddb7db809bcf9492e44076fa (patch)
tree9fcf3008e8205d61a53c6346307b49c3f206a24c /usr.bin/mktemp
parent841e35f2c70582c7d6769a7e9f760a294315f37e (diff)
Nuke paragraph about checking for zero length file. Doing things that
way would allow a race. Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mktemp')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.19
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1 b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
index f8622c6a3a9..e4fc0389b07 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mktemp/mktemp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mktemp.1,v 1.8 1998/03/19 06:13:37 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mktemp.1,v 1.9 1998/04/13 17:22:10 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ any file name with some number of
.Ql X Ns s
appended
to it, for example
-.Pa /tmp/temp.XXXX .
+.Pa /tmp/temp.XXXXXX .
The trailing
.Ql X Ns s
are replaced with the current process number and/or a
@@ -132,11 +132,6 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi
.Ed
-.Pp
-Note that one can also check to see that $TMPFILE is
-zero length instead of checking $?. This would allow
-the check to be done later one in the script (since
-$? would get clobbered by the next shell command).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mktemp 3 ,
.Xr mkdtemp 3 ,