At 3:42 PM 10/10/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>Man mktemp explains that there is a possable race condition between checking
>if a file exists and creating it. mkstemp doesn't have that race condition.

My question was poorly phrased.  I was wondering why the change wasn't
being used by popular free software like GNU make.  Too new, or not
properly connected with the standard libc?

To continue I wonder what tmpfile() does.  This is off topic though.

>The 68k has such an instruction, so I'd bet the TAS glue is missing.

Bingo!  I would have hoped the configure program would notice and backgrade
to using semaphores though.

>> The NetBSD-specific stuff for PostgreSQL is mainly
>> NetBSD/i386-specific :-(  I found that making a change to one of the
>> header files fixed the problem.  The change basically involved making the
>> locking functions not use a "test and set" instruction implementation if
>> the NetBSD platform is m68k-based.  I'm fairly sure that it compiled ok at
>> this point.

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