[DGD]Weird "unable to create tempfile" thing

[Felix A. Croes]

Noah Lee Gibbs <angelbob at monkeyspeak.com> wrote:

>   I have a problem that only happens with a symbolic link and I'm
> curious if it's a DGD bug or if I'm forgetting something important.  I'm
> running with my MUDLib symbolically linked from the DGD directory.  In the
> dgd directory alongside the regular "mud" directory I've got a symlink
> called "phantasmal" to my MUDLib's dir and a config file called
> phantasmal.dgd.
>
>   Problem:  I'm in the "dgd/bin" directory.  I start up a Kernel-based lib 
> I'm working on with DGD.  It runs.  It works fine.  I
> shut it down by saying "shutdown" in an admin account.  I get this error:
>
>        Fatal error: cannot create swap file "../tmp/swap"
>        Abort (core dumped)
>
> That's fine, but then from the same command prompt where I just ran
> "./driver ../phantasmal.dgd", I type "touch ../tmp/swap" and it
> creates the file just fine.  Any idea what's up?

DGD changes the current directory to the actual mudlib directory, and the
./tmp directory doesn't exist from there.

Regards,
Dworkin

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