> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Turk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:48 AM
> To: Tomcat Developers List
> Subject: Re: never say never...
> > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38352
> >
>
> From your bz report:
>
> > ...
> > I think to be compliant with the spec, this must be allowed.
> > ...
> > Again, I think the spec requires this.
> > ...
>
>
> So, why would anyone even spend a single microsecond to look at
> the patch if *you* could not guarantee that the patch is
> compliant with the specs?
I guess this is my mistake, for trying to sound humble. I was trying to be
RESPECTFUL. I'll say it PLAINLY.
Servlet Specification 2.4 says:
SRV.3.7.1 TEMPORARY WORKING DIRECTORYS
A temporary storage directory is required for each servlet context. Servlet
containers must provide a private temporary directory for each servlet
context, and
make it available via the javax.servlet.context.tempdir context attribute.
This just flat says that it must be there, and it is a working directory,
which implies its writable.
>
> I applaud to your willing to contribute, but if you wish to
> do that, and eventually become a member of the elite, you must
> follow some rules, and the first one, like in any company is to
> respect your colleagues.
Respect is a two way street. When someone like Bill Barker creates a logic
puzzle as blatantly wrong as he did, then what level of respect is required?
Specifically, Bill Barker's comments:
>> Don't see the need. If you depend on this, your app is non-portable
since
>> there is no requirement that javax.servlet.context.tempdir has any
relation to
>>java.io.tmpdir. In fact, a servlet container is perfectly free to set
>> java.io.tmpdir to /dev/null if it wants.
>> > Directory specified by java.io.tmpdir (which is what tomcat points
>> > javax.servlet.context.tempdir to) is now read, write, delete. Again, I
think
>> the
>> > spec requires this.
I was fixing an implementation specific issue. The spec says that the
container MUST make temporary working directories available.
The IMPLEMENTATION that tomcat uses is to set java.io.tempdir and
javax.servlet.context.tempdir
So, my making that writable fixes an implementation specific issue for
tomcat. I'll say it again in case I wasn't clear.
1) The spec says javax.servlet.context.tempdir must be a working
directory
2) TOMCAT sets that value to the value of java.io.tmpdir
THEREFORE
FOR THE TOMCAT IMPLEMENTATION
java.io.tmpdir MUST BE WRITABLE.
So, in short. The ELITE should spend a little more time thinking about
things instead of just reflexively trashing people. That is respect.
George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
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