Re: gsort problem

[Bob Proulx]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Also, can you please investigate why coreutils is compiling tempname.c
> at all?  Coreutils does so only if it concludes that the system
> mkstemp has stupid limitations (e.g., mkstemp cannot create more than
> 26 files from a given template).  HP-UX 10.20 had such a problem, but
> is this limitation still present in HP-UX 11.11i?

Yes.  This is a limitation in all known HP-UX versions including the
very latest HP-UX 11.23.  Therefore the replacement mkstemp is required.
The HP-UX man page includes this passage.

 WARNINGS
      It is possible to run out of letters.

Bob