bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory

bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory

[Roland Winkler]

Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
surprised that the default value of this variable was
/tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
account the value of temporary-file-directory?


In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2008-03-27 on tfkp07
configured using `configure  '--with-gcc' '--with-x-toolkit=athena''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.utf8
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-15
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:45:21 +0100
> From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Cc: 
> 
> Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
> under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
> surprised that the default value of this variable was
> /tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
> temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
> account the value of temporary-file-directory?

It looks at $TMPDIR, at least for me.

bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory

[Roland Winkler]

On Thu Jan 29 2009 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
> > Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
> > under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
> > surprised that the default value of this variable was
> > /tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
> > temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
> > account the value of temporary-file-directory?
> 
> It looks at $TMPDIR, at least for me.

Ah, $TMPDIR is an environment variable I didn't know about. I have
customized temporary-file-directory to point to a directory that is
used only by emacs. I would expect temp-file-name-pattern recognizes
such a setting, too.

bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory

[Stefan Monnier]

> Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
> under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
> surprised that the default value of this variable was
> /tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
> temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
> account the value of temporary-file-directory?

It looks like temp-file-name-pattern is specific to call-process-region,
and predates temporary-file-directory.  call-process-region indeed
should be updated to use either make-temp-file or at least
temporary-file-directory.  And temp-file-name-pattern should be dropped.


        Stefan

bug#2107: marked as done (temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory)

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From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:45:21 +0100
Message-ID: <m3zlharrha.fsf@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de>

Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
surprised that the default value of this variable was
/tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
account the value of temporary-file-directory?


In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2008-03-27 on tfkp07
configured using `configure  '--with-gcc' '--with-x-toolkit=athena''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.utf8
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-15
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t




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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 2107-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:17:54 -0500
Message-ID: <87k58clktp.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

I've removed temp-file-name-pattern, and changed call-process-region to
use temporary-file-directory.