[Termtools] use $TMPDIR, not /tmp - Re: possible problems (permission denied)
Johannes Waldmann
johannes.waldmann at htwk-leipzig.de
Fri Aug 7 10:15:14 CEST 2015
Regarding the problem mentioned here:
http://lists.lri.fr/pipermail/termtools/2015-August/001082.html
Aaron tells me:
> The permission denied message is for accessing
> a file in /tmp/. Now, we are setting the TMPDIR
> environment variable to a suitable temporary directory,
> with plenty of space. So tools that follow the linux
> convention of creating temporary files in the directory
> specified by TMPDIR should not have a problem.
> I cannot be sure, but one thing that would explain
> the error is if the user's solver were trying to write
> a large file to /tmp. It only has 2GB in that file system.
> That is why we are specifying TMPDIR.
- J.
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