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fix make-temp-file race on local host

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28023 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28023: fix make-temp-file race on local host
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:24:13 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:


> And finally, tempname.c calls mkdir with 2 arguments, whereas mkdir on
> Windows accepts only one.  (This means Gnulib lacks a dependency,
> since the tempname module should then depend on mkdir, which isn't in
> lib/.)  Since we don't want the Gnulib replacement for mkdir, we will
> have to change w32.c:sys_mkdir to accept 2 arguments to fix this,
> unless you have a better idea.

No, your ideas all sound good. It's simpler for the generic code, if the mkdir 
replacement acts like POSIX mkdir.

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