Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #2324: Use of tmpnam may produce spurious test results

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #2324: Use of tmpnam may produce spurious test results
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-07 16:56:33

#2324: Use of tmpnam may produce spurious test results
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  Reporter:  dave          |       Owner:  ramey        
      Type:  Bugs          |      Status:  reopened     
 Milestone:  Boost 1.37.0  |   Component:  serialization
   Version:  Boost 1.36.0  |    Severity:  Problem      
Resolution:                |    Keywords:               
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Comment (by ramey):

 I ran this with bjam and things seemed to work fine.

 I do have a few questions however.

 a) I didn't find any documentation in the boost/filesystem regarding
 unique_path.  This concerned me somewhat but not all that much.

 b) I couldn't figure out in which directory the temporary files are
 created.  For the windows platform, there is special code to be sure that
 they are created in the $TMP or $TEMP directory.  But, for *nix, I relied
 upon the fact that tmpnam creates it's files in these temporary
 directories. It seems that this fix looses that that.  So does this
 guarantee that these files are created in the $TMP directory and if not,
 can it be modified to guarantee this?

 Robert Ramey

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