I forgot to say that Robert sent almost exactly this patch last year
but I nacked it because the TMPDIR assignment should happen when patch
is exec'd. I'm not so sure now as that would cause an unnecessary
overhead to patching.
Ross
On 26 June 2014 15:16, Ross Burton wrote:
> GNU Patch < 2.6.1
GNU Patch < 2.6.1 has a race condition so we create a per-instance TMPDIR to
avoid this. This was implemented by setting os.environ[TMPDIR] but at the end
of do_patch the temporary directory is deleted but TMPDIR is not unset.
In general this doesn't cause a problem but if do_patch is embedded in
