#! /bin/sh # Use df to find a writable directory on a file system different from that # of the current directory. If one is found, create a temporary directory # inside it. : ${CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS=not_set} # Work around a bug in the way Ultrix4.3a's /bin/sh handles multi-word # variables set with ${VAR="VALUE"} test "$CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS" = not_set \ && CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS="$TMPDIR /tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp $HOME" other_partition_tmpdir= # WARNING: using sed like this to extract the mount point will fail # if the mount point name contains `% '. dot_mount_point=`df --no-sync -P . | sed -n '2s/.*% *//p'` for d in $CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS; do # Skip nonexistent directories. test -d $d || continue d_mount_point=`df --no-sync -P $d | sed -n '2s/.*% *//p'` # Same partition? Skip it. test x$d_mount_point = x$dot_mount_point && continue # See if we can create a directory in it. if mkdir "$d/df-$$" > /dev/null 2>&1; then other_partition_tmpdir="$d/df-$$" break fi done if test -z "$other_partition_tmpdir"; then cat <&2 ************************************** This test requires a writable directory on a different disk partition, and I couldn't find one. I tried these: $CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS Set your environment variable CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS to make this test use a different list. ************************************** EOF #' fi test "$VERBOSE" = yes && set -x