journalctl: Make temporary files directory configurable (#3574)

journalctl: Use env variable TMPDIR to save temporary files

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.c b/src/basic/fs-util.c
index e24e7036f7..f0c6f3265e 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "mkdir.h"
 #include "parse-util.h"
 #include "path-util.h"
+#include "stat-util.h"
 #include "stdio-util.h"
 #include "string-util.h"
 #include "strv.h"
@@ -495,6 +496,34 @@ int get_files_in_directory(const char *path, char ***list) {
         return n;
 }
 
+int var_tmp(char **ret) {
+        const char *tmp_dir = NULL;
+        const char *env_tmp_dir = NULL;
+        char *c = NULL;
+        int r;
+
+        assert(ret);
+
+        env_tmp_dir = getenv("TMPDIR");
+        if (env_tmp_dir != NULL) {
+                r = is_dir(env_tmp_dir, true);
+                if (r < 0 && r != -ENOENT)
+                        return r;
+                if (r > 0)
+                        tmp_dir = env_tmp_dir;
+        }
+
+        if (!tmp_dir)
+                tmp_dir = "/var/tmp";
+
+        c = strdup(tmp_dir);
+        if (!c)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+        *ret = c;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
 int inotify_add_watch_fd(int fd, int what, uint32_t mask) {
         char path[strlen("/proc/self/fd/") + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(int) + 1];
         int r;
diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.h b/src/basic/fs-util.h
index 517b599d6f..075e5942b1 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ int mkfifo_atomic(const char *path, mode_t mode);
 
 int get_files_in_directory(const char *path, char ***list);
 
+int var_tmp(char **ret);
+
 #define INOTIFY_EVENT_MAX (sizeof(struct inotify_event) + NAME_MAX + 1)
 
 #define FOREACH_INOTIFY_EVENT(e, buffer, sz) \