"Cannot create temporary command file" error

[Ali Akcaagac]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:40, Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> > Maybe you gonna fix your tmp dir first and chmod it correctly. It has to
> > be 1777 if the user isn't able to create some temporary stuff in that
> > dir then something is seriously wrong.
> 
> Don't pay too much attention to confusing error message ;)
> Users are able to create files under /tmp.
> The problem arises after /tmp/mc-$USER is deleted during active mc
> session.

Ahh! .... Yes this situation, yeah I find this quite annoying myself
from time to time when deleting that mc-* dir by mistake within a mc
session. I was wrong by assuming that this was a general tmp dir issue
with general creating of that dir.

I think that this stuff should be handled not in the tmp dir rather than
the user dir itself e.g.

.mc/
.mc/tmp/ <--- here
.mc/history
.mc/ini

Would make more sense. But I think that MC itself use the tmpdir
functioncalls to deal with that stuff.