From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #8746: Use tempfile module to get tempdir and randomize the
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d88131afd9a683b16c4c80e1ff8e58f123cbd888;p=python

Issue #8746: Use tempfile module to get tempdir and randomize the
link file name.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index 3b9bc205a0..a6a73063ce 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ import pwd
 import shutil
 import stat
 import sys
+import tempfile
 import unittest
 import warnings
 
-_DUMMY_SYMLINK = '%s/dummy-symlink' % os.getenv('TMPDIR', '/tmp')
+_DUMMY_SYMLINK = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(),
+                              test_support.TESTFN + '-dummy-symlink')
 
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', '.* potential security risk .*',
                         RuntimeWarning)