[GRASS-dev] r65348: Mapset's tmp dir placement and broken element search

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 12:05:18 PDT 2015


Hi,

2015-06-10 17:41 GMT+02:00 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>
> Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
>> First, it allows unorthodox behavior of GRASS but this behavior is (or at
>> least should be) applied only when GRASS_TMPDIR_MAPSET is set to some
>> specific value. I don't see much problem with it as long as the
>> documentation properly discuss all the potential issues and the default is
>> the standard and safe way. This was discussed in [GRASS-dev] r65348
>> (GRASS_TMPDIR_MAPSET).
>
> There is no justification for the current behaviour. The temporary
> cell/fcell and null files should always be created in the mapset's
> temporary directory.

I am not sure why it must be so on (if files are not on the same
filesystem, they can be copied), anyway I changed it in r65436.
GRASS_TMPDIR_MAPSET is accepted only by vector library. Martin


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