Re: bmake inefficiencies

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%juniper.net@localhost>]

Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> More importantly though, folding all of this into one routine will
> facilitate using O_TMPFILE. It's a Linux-specific (for now) flag to
> create a file without having to supply a random pattern (and having to
> unlink it later, like you do here).

For bmake, O_TMPFILE would only ever be viable on a small  subset of
supported systems.