On 18 March 2012 02:29, Daniel Hartwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am prone to implementing this:
>
>>> - check that TMPDIR is writable, falling back to /tmp; or
>
> because it is valid, robust, and requires little effort.  I note that
> many programs actually fail if TMPDIR is not writable... !?

If you do it, it would be a reasonable patch to send upstream.

However, as you note, fixing every single daemon to handle having
TMPDIR set wrong does not scale well.  Perhaps if we need that
workaround it should be done in start-stop-daemon, not in distcc
itself.

-- 
Martin



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