On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:11:38 -0800, comdog wrote: > Setting the temporary directory apparently tries to change the current > working directory, which I didn't expect. But, the documentation for > tmpdir doesn't say what it does > (https://docs.perl6.org/routine/tmpdir). > > put "Tempdir is " ~ $*TMPDIR; > > { > my $dir = '/Users/brian/.tmp'; > unless my $rc = tmpdir( '/Users/brian/.not_there' ) { > my $e = $rc.exception; > put "unless: Error changing to $dir " ~ $e.^name ~ ': ' ~ > $e.message; > } > CATCH { > put "CATCH: Error changing to $dir " ~ .^name; > } > } > > I expected that tmpdir would return a Failure, and maybe it does if it > doesn't change the current working directory. This may be related to > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130418 > ("chdir appears to throw exception immediately"). > > I would only expect things that want to create a temporary file to use > the value of TMPDIR (say, like > https://github.com/perlpilot/p6-File-Temp). I don't need to know where > that is and wouldn't want the current working directory to be there. > I'd rather have the current working directory be the one where my > input files are.
Thank you for the report. &tmpdir was removed from Rakudo's implementation and the issue described in this ticket no longer applies. -- IO grant
