From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:49:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Enable environment variable TMPDIR to set the log temporary directory.
X-Git-Tag: 2.0~43
X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fcc0982757ef9c87939a9bff808e93064a28f688;p=super-star-trek.git

Enable environment variable TMPDIR to set the log temporary directory.
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diff --git a/doc/sst.xml b/doc/sst.xml
index fa2074f..bd7259b 100644
--- a/doc/sst.xml
+++ b/doc/sst.xml
@@ -66,19 +66,20 @@ mode (all features enabled).</para>
 <refsect1 id='files'><title>FILES</title>
 <variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>/usr/share/doc/sst/sst.doc</term>
+<term><filename>/usr/share/doc/sst/sst.doc</filename></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Documentation file.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>/usr/tmp/sst-input.log</term>
+<term><filename>$TMPDIR/sst-input.log</filename></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Where user input is saved to (send this with your bug reports).</para>
+<para>Where user input is saved to (send this with your bug reports).
+If TMPDIR is not set is defaults to <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>emsave.trk</term>
+<term><filename>emsave.trk</filename></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Save file produced by EMEXIT command.</para>
 </listitem>
diff --git a/src/sst.py b/src/sst.py
index 00f6df3..9eaf77d 100644
--- a/src/sst.py
+++ b/src/sst.py
@@ -6197,8 +6197,12 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                 sys.stderr.write("usage: sst [-t] [-x] [startcommand...].\n")
                 raise SystemExit, 1
         # where to save the input in case of bugs
+        if "TMPDIR" in os.environ:
+            tmpdir = os.environ['TMPDIR']
+        else:
+            tmpdir = "/tmp"
         try:
-            logfp = open("/tmp/sst-input.log", "w")
+            logfp = open(os.path.join(tmpdir, "sst-input.log"), "w")
         except IOError:
             sys.stderr.write("sst: warning, can't open logfile\n")
             sys.exit(1)