bug#2211: marked as done (server-socket-dir and make-temp-file)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #2211,
regarding server-socket-dir and make-temp-file
to be marked as done.

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> server-socket-dir and make-temp-file
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> Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0100
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> server-socket-dir is by default a directory in /tmp. With CVS emacs
> it also takes the TMPDIR environment variable into account.
> Shouldn't this variable be initialized using make-temp-file so that
> it obeys any customization of temporary-file-directory?
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> Actually, I ran the following command in the emacs directory
> $ grep "\"/tmp\"" lisp/*el lisp/*/*el
> Browsing through the matches, it seems to me that
> pmail-mime-attachment-dirs-alist and url-temporary-directory
> should be updated, too.
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> A related issue: I do not quite understand a piece of code like
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>   (make-temp-file
>    (concat (file-name-as-directory
>             (or (getenv "TMPDIR") "/tmp"))
>             "artist-stdin."))
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> used in the function artist-system. If the PREFIX arg of
> make-temp-file is an absolute directory as in the example above,
> make-temp-file will ignore any user customization of
> temporary-file-directory. The function ps-run-make-tmp-filename
> behaves similarly.
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> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2008-03-27 on tfkp07
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> Re: bug#2211: server-socket-dir and make-temp-file
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> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:58:46 -0500
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> > I could update those. Yet I just realized that emacs 23 is already in
> > pretest. Is this the kind of thing that should be changed nonethless
> > or should I better wait?
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> I think it's better to fix these now.  I've just done that.  Thanks for
> finding the problem.
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