linux-ext4 - Re: [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:25:36 +0200
From:	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@...temail.net>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 14:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:23:21PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > 
> > Running 'make check' now, I see these messages along the way:
> > 
> > mktemp: too few X's in template `r_64bit_big_expand.XXXXXX.tmp'

This "too few X's" is misleading -- what it intends to say is that it
sees zero X's in the final component of the name, "tmp".

> Hmm... what OS and if Linux, version of coreutils are you using?

Ubuntu Lucid, 2010.04, mktemp --version | head -1
mktemp (GNU coreutils) 8.13

> On my system, from "man mktemp":
> 
>        Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its
>        name.  TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>        last component.
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Same here.  It still says "*last* component".

Regards,

Benno

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