Re: emacs client/server mode hardcodes /tmp path

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:51, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> -       socket_name = alloca (100 + strlen (server_name));
> -       sprintf (socket_name, "/tmp/emacs%d/%s",
> -                (int) geteuid (), server_name);
> +       tmpdir = egetenv ("TMPDIR");
> +       if (!tmpdir)
> +         tmpdir = "/tmp";
> +       socket_name = alloca (96 + strlen (tmpdir) + strlen (server_name));
> +       sprintf (socket_name, "%s/emacs%d/%s",
> +                tmpdir, (int) geteuid (), server_name);

There was neither much point in allocating an extra 100 bytes, nor in
allocating 96 now. The formatted uid is not going to be 88 characters
long.

  Juanma