Re: FHS compliance and UNIX sockets
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:28:35PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 02-Feb-01, 13:03 (CST), Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:47:43AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > >
> > > This turns out to have some interesting consequences. For example, I
> > > added TMPDIR support to "crontab -e", and it broke for some users,
> > > because emacs behaves differently when the path of the file being edited
> > > begins with "/tmp" vs other places. When it's in /tmp, emacs edits in
> > > place and copies to backup, otherwise it moves the original to backup
> > > and edits a copy, which broke crontabs check for if the file had been
> > > modified.
> >
> > That really sounds like a bug in emacs; that's a subtler form of not
> > respecting TMPDIR.
>
> Yes, but: emacs doesn't know it's TMPDIR, because crontab starts emacs
> with an explicit path to the file. Now, that emacs changes behaviour based
> on file location is arguably a bug, but I'm sure opinions will differ on
> that point.
But it's treating /tmp specially. If it should change behavior (which I
won't comment on), it should treat TMPDIR specially.
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