[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #43844] tmpnam() ignores dir parameter if systems temporary dir environment variable is set.

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #43844 (project octave):

I looked back to when the tmpnam function was added to Octave, and it looks
like there was never a time when it was a simple wrapper for the C library
tmpnam function.  Instead it called tempnam.  I don't know why exactly.  Then
sometime later I assume the handling of the DIR and PREFIX arguments was
added.

Rik, I agree that it is probably easier to just rewrite the file name.  I
tried your patch and now if I try someething like tmpnam  ("/home", ""), the
result is "/home/".  Without the patch it was something like
"/home/fileFH6WIK".  Was that intentional?



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