Re: Problem with svn cat

Brian Mathis <bmathis@directedge.com> writes:

> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> [...]
> > This is a known bug, already fixed, but waiting for a new APR (Apache)
> > release before we can roll out the fix. The fix creates tmpfiles in a
> > proper system tmpdir, like /tmp.
> >
>
> Techincally the proper system tmpdir is /var/tmp. /tmp is only there
> for use when booting the system before /var is mounted, and shouldn't
> be used by the general public.

Well, that's the beauty of APR. Our application just going to call
the brand-new apr_dir_get_temp() function, and APR should
automatically tell us where to create scratchfiles. If it chooses the
wrong place for a particular OS, we file a bug against APR rather than
Subversion.

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Received on Fri Oct 17 02:31:52 2003