[luatex] use of luatex with no filename

[luigi scarso]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:55 PM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> There appears to have been a change in the behaviour of luatex if
> given no filename between texlive 2016 and a 0.98.4 built from svn (on
> cygwin) yesterday
>
> * Firstly jobname is not being set to texput so I get a permission
> error trying to write to .log unless I allow open write access in
> texmf.cnf, compare
>
>
>  $ pdftex \\end
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016)
> (preloaded format=pdftex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on texput.log.
>
>
> with
>
> $ luatex \\end
> This is LuaTeX, Version 0.98.4 (TeX Live 2017/dev)
>  restricted system commands enabled.
>
> luatex: Not writing to .log (openout_any = p).
> ! I can't write on file `.log'.
> Please type another transcript file name:
>
>
it should be fixed in experimental.




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luigi