Re: GConf, local lock and TMPDIR

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:10, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> This problem is supposed to be fixed in 2.4 using local lock workaround.
> Unfortunately, gconf is using g_get_tmp_dir to get temporary directory..
> This is a problem when user set TMPDIR variable to $HOME/tmp (this is by
> default on Mdk system)..

Forcing /tmp isn't really right, since people may legitimately relocate
to TMPDIR. I'd suggest that either people use GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS=1, or 
on Mandrake you hardcode /var/tmp or something in gconf maybe?

Dunno, we ultimately need to find a non-hack solution. 

Havoc