Re: [PATCH] mc crashes when temporary directory cannot be created

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Jindrich Novy wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:28 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 20:51 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > > > There is an even simpler cure. In mc_tmpdir() when executing
> > > > > the fallback code pass an absolute path to mc_mkstemps().
> > > > > This will prevent the loop. However I am not yet conviced
> > > > > that this is the best solution. I am still investigating.
> > > >
> > > > I am attaching a patch which passes an absolute path to mc_mkstemps()
> > > > when invoked from mc_tmpdir(). What do you think about this fix ?
> > > > I may add a comment why it is necessary to call mc_mkstemps() with
> > > > an absolute path. By the way I think we should add a check whether
> > > > the environment variable TMPDIR contains an absolute path. Anyway, I'll
> > > > leave this for another patch.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the patch. Do you plan to convert the relative paths to
> > > absolute ones when detected?
> >
> > I think TMPDIR should be ignored in this case. What's your opinion ?
>
> So some hardcoded value such as "/tmp" will then be assumed in case of
> relative path in TMPDIR?

Btw. does it make sense to use relative TMPDIR ?!