Merge remote-tracking branch 'donkult/feature/clientmergepdiffs' into debian/experime...

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / contrib / fileutl.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index 130e990c39831a52234abe6ab2d933d4561d99a4..ffb8b4b53cc628a6caba0dc36b3d3f6121094d6a 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -1827,3 +1827,20 @@ std::vector<std::string> Glob(std::string const &pattern, int flags)
    return result;
 }
                                                                        /*}}}*/
+
+std::string GetTempDir()
+{
+   const char *tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR");
+
+#ifdef P_tmpdir
+   if (!tmpdir)
+      tmpdir = P_tmpdir;
+#endif
+
+   // check that tmpdir is set and exists
+   struct stat st;
+   if (!tmpdir || strlen(tmpdir) == 0 || stat(tmpdir, &st) != 0)
+      tmpdir = "/tmp";
+
+   return string(tmpdir);
+}