R devel - Jun 2001 - Unified naming for R<system>_tmpnam possible?

What is the reason that the system specific files (sys-unix.c et.al.) all define
a specific
name for building tmpfile?

In main/devPS.c then there is an #ifdef sequence which calls depending on the
system defined the respective function.

Wouldn't it be better just to have one function R_tmpnam(), which is
implemented
system dependent in the sys-<system>.c files?




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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Thomas Hoffmann wrote:
> What is the reason that the system specific files (sys-unix.c et.al.) all
define a specific
> name for building tmpfile?
History.
> In main/devPS.c then there is an #ifdef sequence which calls depending on
the
> system defined the respective function.
>
> Wouldn't it be better just to have one function R_tmpnam(), which is
implemented
> system dependent in the sys-<system>.c files?
Yes, now there is a Macintosh maintainer that had occurred to some of us.

However, as this is not part of the R API, I don't see this is of any
interest except to R-core, and changing things that work is not a high
priority.

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