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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>,
	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: fix mktemp call for macOS
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:57:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sgscgido.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rzwza61.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>

On Fri, Jun 14 2019, Ralph Seichter wrote:

> * David Bremner:
>
>> TEMP_GPG=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/notmuch.XXXXXX")
>>
>> (borrowed from test/test-lib.sh). This avoids hardcoding the temporary
>> directory.
>
> I had the same thought at first, but I want to ensure that the path
> length does not cause trouble anymore.

Yes. $TMPDIR could be problematic if it makes the full (unix domain
socket?) path be too long.

SO, exact version Ralph made looks good to me.

Tomi


>
>   > uname -v
>   Darwin Kernel Version 18.6.0: Thu Apr 25 23:16:27 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.261.4~2/RELEASE_X86_64
>   > echo $TMPDIR
>   /var/folders/m_/w5lk3r_1495dhnl4l0s96pr00000gn/T/
>
> That's my MacBook Pro with macOS 10.14.5 (Mojave). AFAIK, older versions
> can have longer names. Also, I am concerned with accumulating clutter.
>
>   > grep clean_tmps_dirs /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
>   daily_clean_tmps_dirs="/tmp"
>
> The /tmp directory will, with default settings, be cleaned periodically
> by the OS, while $TMPDIR (which is user-specific) will not.
>
> -Ralph
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-12  0:26 [PATCH] configure: fix mktemp call for macOS Ralph Seichter
2019-06-14 10:57 ` David Bremner
2019-06-14 11:19   ` Ralph Seichter
2019-06-14 17:57     ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2019-06-14 18:11       ` Tomi Ollila
2019-06-16 14:30       ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
     [not found] <CAC=HcsFwVdsxMeCLk9qZYeHbd_+qJN77EqPZ17S2UgdR0bb6mw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <5d03ff8e.1c69fb81.c82a3.d08e.GMR@mx.google.com>
2019-06-14 20:16   ` Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Tomi Ollila
2019-06-15 17:51     ` [PATCH] configure: fix mktemp call for macOS Ralph Seichter
2019-06-16 11:12       ` Tomi Ollila
2019-06-16 15:18         ` Ralph Seichter
2019-06-17  5:10           ` David Bremner

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