Re: texinfo (Re: Owl packages with dangerous "tmp" functions)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Solar Designer wrote:

> I thought that "txiXXXXXX" was already 9 characters, so it
> wouldn't matter if it's the DOS name or extension that's truncated?

Any decent DOS implementation of mktemp copes with this issue, e.g. by 
removing characters from the "txi" prefix until the template fits into 
8+3 limitations.  That's why the code doesn't need any #ifdef MSDOS 
there.  The "txi.XXXXXX" case is much more tricky to fix.

> > ??? Are you sure?  sort_in_core accepts a "char **" as its first argument, 
> > while tempfiles[i] is a "char *".
> 
> Doesn't appear this way:
> 
> void
> sort_in_core (infile, total, outfile)
>      char *infile;

Sorry, I don't know why did I think it was a "char **".