On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:24 PM, David Golden <[email protected]>wrote:
> By default, tempfile creates in cwd, which could easily be on NFS.
Eh? Oh, that kind of default ...
$ perldoc File::Temp | grep -B5 -A1 ', as specified' ; perl -mFile::Spec -E
'say "On my system, ", File::Spec->tmpdir'
$fh = tempfile();
($fh, $filename) = tempfile();
Create a temporary file in the directory specified for temporary
files, as specified by the tmpdir() function in File::Spec.
On my system, /tmp
$
But, File::Spec->tmpdir returns "the current directory if no writable
temporary directories are found."
Okay, that's a default, in a sense.
But it is also a pretty flaky system, with cwd on NFS and no writable
temporary directory provided.
Eirik
