From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:42:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: shell/env: use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for TMP/TEMP/TEMPDIR if available
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bf027eac5d1db120307350f2db48cd73329b2f7

shell/env: use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for TMP/TEMP/TEMPDIR if available
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diff --git a/shell/env b/shell/env
index bd529ba..fa7e6da 100644
--- a/shell/env
+++ b/shell/env
@@ -80,16 +80,19 @@ LESS_TERMCAP_so="${escape}[01;30;43m"
 LESS_TERMCAP_se="${escape}[0m"
 export LESS_TERMCAP_so LESS_TERMCAP_se
 
-# Use ~/.tmp as directory for temporary files if available to reduce security
-# problems on multi-user systems.
-if test -d "$HOME/.tmp"; then
+# Prefer a private and most likely fast directory (tmpfs) for temporary files
+# to reduce security problems on multi-user systems.
+if test -n "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" && test -d "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"; then
+    TMP="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
+# Use ~/.tmp and ~/.tmp as fallback.
+elif test -d "$HOME/.tmp"; then
     TMP="$HOME/.tmp"
-    TEMP="$TMP"
-    TMPDIR="$TMP"
-    export TMP TEMP TMPDIR
-# Also try ~/tmp as fallback.
 elif test -d "$HOME/tmp"; then
     TMP="$HOME/tmp"
+else
+    TMP=
+fi
+if test -n "$TMP"; then
     TEMP="$TMP"
     TMPDIR="$TMP"
     export TMP TEMP TMPDIR