[PATCH] Prefer TMPDIR over hard coded /tmp

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Thu Apr 26 00:45:38 UTC 2018


On Apr 25, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:

>> The attached patch changed the behavior to use the content of the environment variable TMPDIR, if present. Note that this does not change where the hsperf* folders are created.
> 
> The source change looks OK to me aside from the copyright year and that in the second line here

Note that I am only saying that the patch looks OK, not that we want to use it. There have been a number of issues filed in this area over time, for example https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6205979. There are arguments against this change.

Brian


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