Hi Pavel,

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?

Jindrich

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