From: Simon Ruderich 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/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bf027eac5d1db120307350f2db48cd73329b2f7;p=config%2Fdotfiles.git shell/env: use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for TMP/TEMP/TEMPDIR if available --- 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