Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp

[Nils Gillmann]

Christian Grothoff transcribed 3.3K bytes:
> Hi Nils,
> 
> You are aware of src/util/disk.c, where we do use $TMPDIR (with fallback
> to $TMP, $TEMP and finally /tmp) via GNUNET_DISK_mkdtemp() and
> GNUNET_DISK_mktemp() already?
> 
> Naturally, there may be places in the code that don't use this, but they
> should ;-).

I grepped for "/tmp" in "src" and a not so small number of files was returned,
which is why I asked.
I didn't check the context in the files so far, but it is correct that I
should use something similar to what is being used in src/util/disc.c when
it's not already the case?

> -Christian
> 
> On 05/05/2018 02:33 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> > I would like to replace our use of /tmp in the source repository
> > with $TMPDIR.
> > 
> > Before I go ahead and try:
> > 
> > * Is that portable to at least POSIX compliant systems?
> > * (future issue) Will this affect the (so far just planned) work for better 
> > MS Windows integration?
> > * Is there a particular reasons why you picked /tmp instead of $TMPDIR?
> > 
> > For the first 2 questions I can search myself but would welcome replies.
> > The third question is what I'm really interested in.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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