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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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