[GRASS-dev] clean_temp rewritten

Francesco P. Lovergine frankie at debian.org
Mon Jun 26 04:07:06 EDT 2006


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:17:19PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> Glynn's comment to Markus:
> > > Changing the code to use G_asprintf() instead is one alternative
> > > (although G_asprintf() uses a temporary file on systems which lack
> > > asprintf()).
> 
> 
> I've disliked G_asprintf() due to this inefficiency, but last month
> Glynn noted that most file systems won't bother to write to disk if
> the file is removed before the disk buffer is flushed, so maybe it isn't
> so bad.
> 

Just curious... Any reason to not use libiberty for those kind of
porting issues?

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine




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