Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder

From: "Joachim Schmitz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:20:35 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Aguilar <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Use mktemp to create the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge.
>> This keeps it out of the current directory.
>>
>> Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>> I consider this a final finishing touch on a new 1.8.1 feature,
>> so hopefully we can get this in before 1.8.1.
>
> Does everybody have mktemp(1), which is not even in POSIX.1?

HP-NonStop doesn't have it, unless you're on the latest release, which added 
GNU coreutils.

Bye, Jojo