Re: [PATCH/RFC] Bugfix for AIX tmpfile creation

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Hmm, we have quite a few calls to mkstemp(), so adding the workaround to
this specific call site does not scale well as a fix, I am afraid.

All other callers of mkstemp() always rewrite the _entire_ path and don't 
care about the result after failure (since it failed)

Yeah, I realize I grepped wrong X-<.