[PATCH 1 of 2] run-tests: make --tmpdir option more useful

[Martin Geisler]

Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 23, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> Right -- I believe you want the first bullet with no explicit options
>> to run-tests.py. Instead you implicitly move the tmpdir to your
>> ramdisk by exporting the TMP environment variable (tempfile.mkdtemp
>> will use it).
>
> Ah, righto - I'm just dense. That'll work just fine. Sorry for the
> trouble. :)

No worries :-) It is a little sneaky to do it like this, especially when
the --tmpdir option is right there and seems to do the right thing.

I'll look at it again tonight and see if there has been other opinions
in the mean time.

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Martin Geisler

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