This looks good to me, though it would be good to add a comment explaining why this dance is necessary. Perhaps something along the lines of # The emacs server places its socket in TMPDIR, but ld.so unsets # TMPDIR when loading setgid binaries like screen, so we must # explicitly pass TMPDIR through to emacs. Quoth Jameson Graef Rollins on Nov 10 at 8:59 am: > This is to get around a bug where screen unsets TMPDIR. This causes > problems for users who set TMPDIR to something other than it's default > (/tmp). > --- > test/test-lib.sh | 4 +++- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh > index ff5183f..108537e 100755 > --- a/test/test-lib.sh > +++ b/test/test-lib.sh > @@ -842,7 +842,9 @@ test_emacs () { > if [ -z "$EMACS_SERVER" ]; then > EMACS_SERVER="notmuch-test-suite-$$" > # start a detached screen session with an emacs server > - screen -S "$EMACS_SERVER" -d -m "$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs" \ > + screen -S "$EMACS_SERVER" -d -m \ > + env TMPDIR="$TMPDIR" \ > + "$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs" \ > --no-window-system \ > --eval "(setq server-name \"$EMACS_SERVER\")" \ > --eval '(server-start)' \