Re: [vile] Temp files in spell filter

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Decklin Foster wrote:

> The spell filter currently creates temporary files in vile's current
> directory. This fails in any case where the directory is not writable by

(thanks ;-)

> the user. I've attached a patch to make the filter try TMPDIR from the
> environment and fall back to /tmp. I have not searched the rest of the
> code for other places that this might be a problem.
>
> Note: Since the value of an environment variable could be long enough
> to overflow I made open_tempfile take the buffer size as well and use
> snprintf.
>
> (I am totally unclear on why the spell filter needs temp files, but hey,
> I just wanted things to work so I could send an email... :-)

It's done that way since (other than modifying npopen.c to allow
multiple concurrent pipes) there's no clean way to read and write
a buffered-I/O pipe.

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