[naemon-dev] worker chdir

[Robin Sonefors]

On 2014-01-19 17:58, Sven Nierlein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I stumpled over the workers changing into /tmp/[nagios-workers]:
> https://github.com/naemon/naemon-core/blob/master/naemon/lib/worker.c#L665
>
> I see some problems here, the first one is that /tmp/nagios-workers does not exist and won't
> be created anywhere. I am not even sure if changing the folder is a good idea at all. It
> broke some of my checks which use relative paths and we use that a lot in OMD. Is changing
> into the HOME folder of that user an option?
>
> Then the build breaks on SLES11 machines with :
>
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> worker.c: In function enter_worker:
> worker.c:665: error: ignoring return value of chdir, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
>
> I assume the (void)chdir supresses that on the other build machines, however it doesn't work on
> SLES (gcc4.3.4)
>
> Any ideas?

So, apparently nobody liked what it was doing, and it was only doing it 
for vague, historical reasons.

I've changed it to try to go to $HOME instead.