Bug 9036

Summary:	setting of environment variable TMPDIR not honored
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	ginny690901
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	major	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.24.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description ginny690901 2016-06-22 21:32:15 UTC

While it's possible (even when rather stressful to change all relevant '/bin' to '/system/bin', perhaps consider a change to autotools?) to compile busybox on a not rooted android system, it's virtually ussless since thé only part that honors TMPDIR is <mktemp>!
While this bug might not be as severe on other systems as it is on android, it is present on all systems.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2016-07-12 14:17:45 UTC

I would say, "Who is the idiot who planned Android filesystem and 'wisely' decided to made /bin/sh and /tmp nonexistent?"
What such a decision could possibly be good for? Causing pain, I take it.