Re: [Bug-wget] Wget MinGW/MSYS build issues

[Ángel González]

On 10/03/13 01:30, Alex wrote:
> Greetings
> 1. Wget builded from Git 3be7e0 (as and official 1.14),
> compiled on MinGW doesn't work properly with WARC.
> wget --warc-file=1 www.google.com
> Return error "Could not open temporary WARC manifest file."
> Problem in warc_tempfile function with strings
>           if (unlink (filename) < 0)
>             return NULL;
> In MinGW unlink() tries to remove file immediately and cause error if it
> still open ( by mkstemp()). In *nix unlink() mark file to be removed after
> last handle to the file is closed.
> Find function, that must work as *nix unlink() in Win32 Kernel32.dll -
> "DeleteFile()", but it does not remove WARC temporary files.
> It is possible to do something with it? (Now just comment unlink())

It can be opened with the FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag.
gnulib has several functions already taking that into account, but none
of them seem to support passing a folder.

We should probably ask gnulib for a tmpfile() function which allows a
folder parameter. Otherwise I think we will end up rewriting the same code.