I would like to suggest to use TMPDIR before to default to /tmp.
This makes it easier to port gzip to no posix OSs.
Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero
diff -aprNU5 gzip-1.3.11.orig/znew.in gzip-1.3.11/znew.in
--- gzip-1.3.11.orig/znew.in 2007-02-05 20:54:26 +0000
+++ gzip-1.3.11/znew.in 2007-03-25 21:09:54 +0000
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ old=0
new=0
block=1024
# block is the disk block size (best guess, need not be exact)
warn="(does not preserve modes and timestamp)"
-tmp=/tmp/zfoo.$$
+tmp=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/zfoo.$$
set -C
echo hi > $tmp || exit
if test -z "`(${CPMOD-cpmod} $tmp $tmp) 2>&1`"; then
cpmod=${CPMOD-cpmod}
warn=""
