From da947eadcfa1367c2d634667068db813a87a6dd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:24 +0100
Subject: Clarify documentation for mkdtemp.

---
 src/generator.ml | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index e378395a..86f2fe20 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -2450,15 +2450,18 @@ manual page for more details.");
    "\
 This command creates a temporary directory.  The
 C<template> parameter should be a full pathname for the
-temporary directory with the six characters being
+temporary directory name with the final six characters being
 \"XXXXXX\".
 
-For example: \"/tmp/tmpXXXXXX\" or \"/Temp/tmpXXXXXX\",
-the second one being suitable for Windows.
+For example: \"/tmp/myprogXXXXXX\" or \"/Temp/myprogXXXXXX\",
+the second one being suitable for Windows filesystems.
 
 The name of the temporary directory that was created
 is returned.
 
+The temporary directory is created with mode 0700
+and is owned by root.
+
 The caller is responsible for deleting the temporary
 directory and its contents after use.
 
-- 
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