[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5984: WordPress should not depend on access to /tmp/

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#5984: WordPress should not depend on access to /tmp/
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 Reporter:  hangy           |        Owner:  hansengel
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch       |  
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Comment (by hangy):

 It is true that there will always be weird server setups and also assuming
 that one can write to sys_get_temp_dir() should be right in most cases.
 However, WordPress is probably used in the most awkward hosting
 environments one can think of, thus working around such problems as good
 as possible sounds pretty important to me. :)

 I guess my "vote" would go to DD32's solution with the define renamed to
 hansengel's WPTEMPDIR. ;) My guess is that it is most likely that some dir
 in wp-content is writable (installer could check this?) than /tmp/ for all
 those server setups mentioned above.

 While one obviously ditches the features of using a system-managed
 temporary directory using this approach as the default, it could be the
 most reliable one, cross-platform thinking. (Any idea how PHP on a Windows
 server reacts to a "/tmp/" path?)

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