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Re: Heads-Up: tempfile missing (Attn: findutils, bzip2 maintainers)

From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
To: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:40:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Heads-Up: tempfile missing (Attn: findutils, bzip2 maintainers)
References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0408261423060.18394@slinky.cs.nyu.edu><412E9D00.4010803@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I just noticed that /bin/updatedb (from findutils) and /bin/bzdiff (from
> > bzip2) use "tempfile", which is non-POSIX, and is missing under Cygwin.
>
> Noted, thanks.  Will fix in next release.

Chuck,

FWIW, I already have the fix, and asked the upstream maintainer whether
he'll accept patches.  Just in case, the patch is attached.
HTH,
	Igor
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References:
- Heads-Up: tempfile missing (Attn: findutils, bzip2 maintainers)
  - From: Igor Pechtchanski
- Re: Heads-Up: tempfile missing (Attn: findutils, bzip2 maintainers)
  - From: Charles Wilson

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