Add comments telling why we use tempnam() and tmpnam().

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7a3d716caff6d7fadcdfd3091b42f102ef41526a..6a177c3ed1d3272ed2866bfa1fdf452547cf46a9 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Apr 23 02:17:26 CDT 2001 Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
+
+  * dpkg-deb/info.c, main/processarc.c: Add comments telling why we
+    use tempnam() and tmpnam().
+
 Sun Apr 22 23:59:00 CDT 2001 Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
 
   * archtable: Added alphaev67-linux-gnu.

diff --git a/dpkg-deb/info.c b/dpkg-deb/info.c
index 01e36cba1dacee3efc48542bf13bac6ae875ff09..00e3e1be1997750f36982a6f67aec4e37178dd3d 100644 (file)
--- a/dpkg-deb/info.c
+++ b/dpkg-deb/info.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static void info_prepare(const char *const **argvp,
   
   *debarp= *(*argvp)++;
   if (!*debarp) badusage(_("--%s needs a .deb filename argument"),cipaction->olong);
+  /* This created a temporary directory, so ignore the warning. */
   if ((dbuf= tempnam(NULL,"dpkg")) == NULL)
     ohshite(_("failed to make temporary filename"));
   *directoryp= dbuf;

diff --git a/main/processarc.c b/main/processarc.c
index 2f649d209a6287942c441518d94b97ce4c473896..5f37158e635f155a056fa2d5410d967d3eefc85a 100644 (file)
--- a/main/processarc.c
+++ b/main/processarc.c
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ void process_archive(const char *filename) {
 
   if (f_noact) {
     cidir= cidirtmpnambuf;
+    /* We use tmpnam here, not to get a unique filename, but to get a unique directory. */
     if (!tmpnam(cidir)) ohshite(_("unable to get unique filename for control info"));
     strcat(cidir,"/");
   } else {