On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:35:23 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa <rak...@freebsd.org>
said:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> writes:
> 
> > beyond using TMPDIR, TMP and TEMP env vars... i dont see how this
> > helps much :) in fact they probably should be there in if (fd < 0). on
> > non-linux it STAR TS with fd being -1 so it goes right it the failure
> > case. for linx this means failure case still works. we.l that and the
> > ifdef around the unlink.
> >
> > i've put in an alternate patch in svn that keeps the tmpdir fallback
> > for evas.
> 
> The reason I stopped treating the failure case on Linux is that when we
> discussed the patch on IRC you said we shouldn't take the case of
> /dev/shm not being present into account. Anyway, glad to see that this
> has finally been fixed.

well /dev/shm not being there is going to be a REALLy rare day in hell, and
with cserve blah blah blah - we kind of cant work without it anymore. :) but
the code is easier and cleaner to read imho if we keep the failure case for
linux anyway.

> Should this be backported, as currently no stable release has that
> function working on non-Linux platforms? Do I need to write
> NEWS/ChangeLog items?

good question. i suppose it should be backported. :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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