[PATCH] mc crashes when temporary directory cannot be created

[Pavel Tsekov]

Hello,

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 ?