root/tags/1.2.4/test-mktemp

Revision 929, 2.2 kB (checked in by lupe, 5 years ago)

On second thought, the mktemp solution was a kludge.

Better solution: Add a configurable variable replacement for the tempfile
creation method and use that in plugins that require a tempfile. This
uses a shell script that tries a variety of tempfile creation methods.

  • Property svn:executable set to *
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1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 # This file tries to determine the best method to create a tempfile
4 # by testing various methods.
5
6 # Copyright (c) 2005, Lutz Peter Christoph
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37
38
39 testfun () {
40         TEMP_FILE=`eval $MKTEMP 2>/dev/null`
41         STATUS=$?
42         if [ $STATUS = 0 -a -n "$TEMP_FILE" -a -f "$TEMP_FILE" ]; then
43                 rm -f $TEMP_FILE
44                 echo $MKTEMP
45                 exit
46         else
47                 rm -f $TEMP_FILE
48         fi
49 }
50
51 # Preferred
52 MKTEMP='mktemp -p /tmp/ $1'
53 testfun temp.XXXXXX
54
55 # FreeBSD way
56 MKTEMP="mktemp -t /tmp"
57 testfun temp.XXXXXX
58
59 # Plain mktemp
60 MKTEMP="mktemp /tmp/$1"
61 testfun temp.XXXXXX
62
63 # No mktemp at all
64 MKTEMP='rm -rf /tmp/$1.$$ && touch /tmp/$1.$$ && chmod 600 /tmp/$1.$$ && echo /tmp/$1.$$'
65 testfun temp.XXXXXX
66
67 exit 1
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