Re: svn commit invokes $EDITOR not where svn run from

Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
> > If subversion had an interface to /tmp and $TMPDIR (or whatever any
> > given platform uses) we could use that, such a path should be safe and
> > so we could avoid the cd. It is likely that such an interface would
> > need APR support for the platform dependent bits; probably not very
> > hard to do but nobody has done it.
>
> Does W*ndows have a tempdir that is always a "safe" path? Isn't the
> normal tempdir relative to the WINDOWS directory, which can
> (theoretically) have any path?

Windows has environmental variables for answering this question. I
think the ordering is WINTMP, TMP, TEMP, but I can't recall with
certainty.

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Received on Thu Aug 8 18:17:22 2002