Update GNU coreutils to version 7.4 [PSARC/2009/355 FastTracktimeout 06/22/2009]

[James Carlson]

Glenn Fowler writes:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:59:42 -0400 James Carlson wrote:
> > Glenn Fowler writes:
> > The Solaris one does a modest check to see if the name is unused.  But
> > since it doesn't hold onto that newly-created object, anyone else
> > could slip in a millisecond after mktemp(1) exit and create that same
> > object with nary a complaint observed.
> 
> > I don't see now it's an architectural distinction.
> 
> solaris does two extra calls { creat(2) or whatever and unlink(2) }
> either of those two calls could fail, causing mktemp(1) to fail

Arguably, the existence of a failure mode of any sort for -u is itself
just a bug.

> I don't like the -u option in either incarnation
> but the incarnations are distinct

I'm having a hard time seeing how the distinctions are actually
important, rather than being mere implementation artifacts.

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