tag 351373 fixed-upstream thanks On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Package: perl-modules > Version: 5.8.7-10 > Severity: wishlist > > The function tempfile() does not behave like tempdir() when this > is what the user expects. > > In detail, according to the documentation TMPDIR => 1 is honoured > by tempdir() and since other optional arguments are the same for > tempfile() and since it seems logical to have tempfile() create > a temporary file in the common temporary directory, people expect > TMPDIR => 1 to work with tempfile() as well.
This is fixed in File-Temp 0.19, but the version bundled with Perl 5.10.0 is 0.18. The separate libfile-temp-perl package is at 0.20 and contains the fix. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
