[darcs-devel] [issue1172] temporary file created in silly place

[Trent Buck]

Trent Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:00:53AM -0000, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> Darcs should probably use ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} for temporary files.
>
> No, it shouldn't.  Darcs will sometimes rename a temporary file over
> a real file, for that to work efficiently the temp file needs to be
> in the same directory as the file it's going to be removed over.

I'd rather it worked inefficiently than not at all.  I believe the
transcript demonstrates that the "efficient" method at least needs to
be taught about edge cases, because its assumptions are not always
valid.

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