Bug 444717

Summary:	trcsort doesn't remove temp directory when terminated
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component:	pvm	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Milos Malik 2008-04-30 08:46:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
The trcsort utility doesn't remove temporary directory when terminated by pressing "Ctrl+C" or executing "killall trcsort". Each termination of trcsort leaves one temporary directory in the filesystem.

For example:
tmpsort.32512
tmpsort.32520
tmpsort.32528
tmpsort.32568
tmpsort.32589

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pvm-3.4.5-10

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
<arch>: LINUXIA64, LINUXI386, LINUXPPC64, LINUXS390, LINUXS390X, LINUXX86_64
Run following steps as root:
1. cd /
2. /usr/share/pvm3/bin/<arch>/trcsort
3. press Ctrl+C
4. ls

Actual Results:
There is a temporary directory which name starts with "tmpsort".

Expected Results:
There is no temporary directory which name starts with "tmpsort".

Additional info:

Comment 1 Milos Malik 2008-04-30 08:59:45 UTC

This problem has another aspect. The utility wants to create a temporary
directory in the current directory (instead of in /tmp), which means that it
refuses to run in a directory where the user has no rights to write to.

Following steps illustrate the situation:

$ cd /
$ /usr/share/pvm3/bin/LINUXI386/trcsort 

Error Creating Temporary Directory "tmpsort.438".

$ echo $?
255
$

Comment 2 Doug Ledford 2008-06-19 18:05:48 UTC

trcsort isn't intended to be a manually run program (hence why there isn't an
alias for it in /usr/bin).  The commands that do run it (pvm/xpvm) are
responsible for running it in the proper directory, and if need be, cleaning up
after it (although as long as you are in a tmp directory cleaned out by
tmpwatch, even that's unnecessary).