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These environment variables are needed for subprocesses to do things like create lockfiles and all that!
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Pull Request Overview
This PR adds support for temporary directory environment variables (TEMP and TMP) to the environment normalization function, ensuring that Python subprocesses can properly create temporary files and lock files.
- Adds
TEMPenvironment variable passthrough for Python subprocess compatibility - Adds
TMPenvironment variable passthrough to handle Windows environment variable variations
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LGTM. A useful comment from copilot?
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| // Apparently, according to some random person on Stack Overflow, sometimes the var can be | ||
| // TEMP and sometimes it can be TMP. So uh...let's just grab both just in case. | ||
| let tmp = std::env::var("TMP").unwrap_or_default(); |
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I appreciate the honesty. We should probably try to verify this with some official documentation....somewhere?
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I spent 5 minutes trying to find something that wasn't Stack Overflow or Reddit posts complaining about it. Generally, seems like it dates back to DOS. There's some basic docs here that reference both lol https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-recognized-environment-variables
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These environment variables are needed for subprocesses to do things like create lock files and all that!