Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any chance APR will handle a portable apr_get_temp_dir function? (which
> returns the existing writable temp path) which then could be used to
> create a template wanted by apr_file_mktemp().
Oh, man, would I like to see such a thing. Subversion has several
instances of needing a temporary directory that's world-writable.
> e.g. perl's CGI.pm which is used on many platforms uses this hardcoded
> array where it then searches for the first writable directory (at
> compile time)
>
> $SL = $CGI::SL;
> $MAC = $CGI::OS eq 'MACINTOSH';
> my ($vol) = $MAC ? MacPerl::Volumes() =~ /:(.*)/ : "";
> @TEMP=("${SL}usr${SL}tmp","${SL}var${SL}tmp",
> "C:${SL}temp","${SL}tmp","${SL}temp",
> "${vol}${SL}Temporary Items",
> "${SL}WWW_ROOT", "${SL}SYS\$SCRATCH",
> "C:${SL}system${SL}temp");
> unshift(@TEMP,$ENV{'TMPDIR'}) if exists $ENV{'TMPDIR'};
Wow, that's pretty cool. Hey, if it works...
> of course if we can use existing library functions that would be more
> portable I think.
>
> POSIX systems has tmpnam().
> BSD 4.3 has tempnam().
> That's all I know.
I think these functions (at least tmpnam) are more about generating
unique file -names- that won't clash with the other names generated by
that function. Unfortunately they won't give you a full path in a
writable location or anything like that.
