Re: File::Temp::_gettemp warning

[email protected] ("H.Merijn Brand")
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.daily-build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:11:42 -0500 [email protected] wrote:
> There's also a fundemental problem with lib/ftmp-security.t.  We have
> no way of knowing if a test failed because File::Temp has failed or
> because the admin has a peculiar way of setting up /tmp!  In the
> latter case, File::Temp is working perfectly, but the test will fail.
> This is wrong.

Agree.

> This can be solved by using t/tmp instead of File::Spec->tmpdir.
> t/lib/ftmp-security.t can create t/tmp and chmod it the way it likes,
> then run tempfile() with it as the DIR.  At the end, it can delete it.
> 
> Soon t/tmp will be cannonized as part of the testing suite.

How does it deal with lack of disk space? I've set up /tmp to have an avarage
free space of 300 Mb, where my blead env has less than 200 and even that is
not guaranteed.

-- 
H.Merijn Brand
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