Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 47699 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2004 22:20:41 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2004 22:20:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 27493 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 2004 22:20:35 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 27156 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 2004 22:20:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Users List" Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 27128 invoked by uid 99); 8 Jul 2004 22:20:32 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [12.43.53.196] (HELO mail.sofari.com) (12.43.53.196) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.27.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:20:26 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([12.43.53.196]) by mail.sofari.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i68MKL9Y022989 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:20:21 -0700 Message-ID: <40EDC8A3.90800@newsmonster.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:20:19 -0700 From: "Kevin A. Burton" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Lucene shouldn't use java.io.tmpdir References: <20040708050135.74044.qmail@web12704.mail.yahoo.com> <40ED9DD7.6010204@newsmonster.org> <40EDB36A.2090001@apache.org> In-Reply-To: <40EDB36A.2090001@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Doug Cutting wrote: > Kevin A. Burton wrote: > >> This is why I think it makes more sense to use our own java.io.tmpdir >> to be on the safe side. > > > I think the bug is that Tomcat changes java.io.tmpdir. I thought that > the point of the system property java.io.tmpdir was to have a portable > name for /tmp on unix, c:\windows\tmp on Windows, etc. Tomcat breaks > that. So must Lucene have its own way of finding the platform-specific > temporary directory that everyone can write to? Perhaps, but it seems > a shame, since Java already has a standard mechanism for this, which > Tomcat abuses... I've seen this done in other places as well. I think Weblogic did/does it. I'm wondering what some of these big EJB containsers use which is why I brought this up. I'm not sure the problem is just with Tomcat. Kevin -- Please reply using PGP. http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: lucene-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org