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Id: 74349
Status: open
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Queue: PathTools
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Requestors: jkeenan [...] cpan.org
TJC [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 3.33
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  Wed Jan 25 01:02:13 2012 TJC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: TMPDIR is being cached for the life of the module
File::Spec::UNIX will cache $ENV{TMPDIR} internally after the first call to File::Spec->tmpdir; Unfortunately this breaks any code that tries to adjust the environment variable.
  Wed Jan 25 01:35:52 2012 TJC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Or rather -- it confuses any code which changes $ENV{TMPDIR} and expects that to be honoured by File::Temp's TMPDIR=>1 option.
  Wed Jan 25 01:35:54 2012 TJC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Nov 24 00:37:44 2013 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Jan 25 01:35:52 2012, TJC wrote: Show quoted text
> Or rather -- it confuses any code which changes $ENV{TMPDIR} and expects > that to be honoured by File::Temp's TMPDIR=>1 option.
The documentation of tmpdir() currently found in dist/Cwd/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm (Perl 5 core distribution) states: ##### Returns a string representation of the first writable directory from the following list or the current directory if none from the list are writable: $ENV{TMPDIR} /tmp ##### I interpret this to mean, "At the point I call tmpdir(), see what's available first on that list and use it as a temporary directory." The "confusion" is being created by the author of the code which changes the environmental variable -- not by File::Spec. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
  Tue Nov 26 18:39:53 2013 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Requestor JKEENAN added