Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch

[Andi Kleen]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:07, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch (-mm patches) is
> implemented faultily and fails in its intention to put temporary files
> in $TMPDIR (or /tmp by default).
>
> This is the code as it results from the patch:
>
> ASTMP = $(shell mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/asXXXXXX)

I'm still against mktemp. It eats random entropy and
temporary files should be in the objdir, not in /tmp

-Andi
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