[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50183] tempname() returns an empty string on Solaris

[Michele]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #50183 (project octave):

""I would try something like this in gdb"

bash-3.2$ gdb /export/home/miller/octave/bin/octave-cli
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Reading symbols from /export/home/miller/octave/bin/octave-cli...done.
(gdb) b file-ops.cc:720
No source file named file-ops.cc.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n
(gdb) r
Starting program: /export/home/miller/octave/bin/octave-cli
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1 (LWP 1)]
warning: kpathsea: variable 'PATH' references itself (eventually)
warning: called from
   
/export/home/miller/octave/lib/octave/4.0.1-rc4/oct/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/PKG_ADD
at line 5 column 1
Xlib: connection to ":11.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

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octave:1> tempname
ans = /var/tmp/oct-8Q83Yd
octave:2> p retval
error: 'p' undefined near line 1 column 1
octave:2> p msg
error: 'p' undefined near line 1 column 1
octave:2>


/var/tmp has permisisons:
drwxrwxrwt  32 root     sys         8704 Mar  1 10:01 tmp


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