From ba2eab25ff54209d119ce9e0c7dd88bdf76b5460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:53:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #8746: Use tempfile module to get tempdir and randomize
 the link file name.

---
 Lib/test/test_posix.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index 556305003b3..09f04ec3484 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ import os
 import pwd
 import shutil
 import stat
+import tempfile
 import unittest
 import warnings
 
-_DUMMY_SYMLINK = '%s/dummy-symlink' % os.getenv('TMPDIR', '/tmp')
+_DUMMY_SYMLINK = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(),
+                              support.TESTFN + '-dummy-symlink')
 
 class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase):