"Cannot create temporary command file" error

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Ali Akcaagac wrote:
 > 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.

The attached patch hopefully fixes it.

 > 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.

It doesn't seem to, it just uses getenv('TMPDIR') so it's matter of
changing one line of code. But I think an advantage of using /tmp is
that /tmp can be cleaned much easier. When using .mc/tmp/mc-XXXX, these
directories will pile up, as with current mc, there are lots of
situations when the user has to kill -9 mc because it froze.

Regards,

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka