Re: Re #2: [patch] Re: [PATCH] modules_install
Adam Sulmicki (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:24:19 -0400
->> ->Just back the patch out. Its a complete turkey. If you want to fix it
->> ->you need additional tools like mktemp which not all distributions include
->>
->> It is not case, the above is attempt to try to protect from case when
->> someone make the file before hand, but they also used chattr command to
->> make it immutable and therefore not removable by 'rm -rf'. Even mktemp
->> won't help here (in fact the test condition below mkdir comes form
->> manpage on mktmp :)
->
->mktemp can try multiple names, doing that in sh is rather harder.
Well, IMHO. I see my 2nd patch as good as mktemp, yet it does not
require everyone to have mkemp if they want to compile kernel.
But, you are those-in-power, not me. So I'll not argue any further ;-)
Adam
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