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Re: Change to genassym to use mktemp(1) to create tempdir



In article <alpine.NEB.2.02.1401070941430.26150%t1.m.reedmedia.net@localhost>,
Jeremy C. Reed <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, J.T. Conklin wrote:
>
>> The -q option only suppresses mktemp's diagnostics, it doesn't change 
>> the return value. Having both mktemp and genassym output a diagnostic
>> may be a bit messy/confusing.
>
>But adds better (than "unable to create temporary directory") detail 
>like: "File exists" or "No such file or directory" or "Permission 
>denied"  etc.

While this discussion has been going on, I've committed a fix.

christos



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