Re: [PATCH] Fix some temp file issues

[Paul Eggert]

On 2022-10-08 00:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > tmpfile uses "wb+" (POSIX requires this) and we should be consistent in
> > all the paths that create temporary FILE *. The attached patch adds a
> > comment about this.
> I don't remember: where is this temporary file read?

It's read by a different process (fork+exec), so it doesn't matter for 
'make' now whether it uses "w+" or "w". It matters only for possible 
future changes to 'make' later, assuming we ever change other parts of 
'make' to sometimes need read access via the same FILE *.