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feat: avoid hardcoded HOME for spawn-wrap working dir (#957)
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By default, spawn-wrap writes temporary files to HOME.
It used to be /tmp, but it changed that to HOME to support
environments that have 'noexec' flags set on their tmpfs mount.
Ref istanbuljs/spawn-wrap#3.

The problem with this is that nyc now no longer works in environments
without a (writable) home directory (e.g. the 'nobody' user on
Linux).

While it is fine to fallback to HOME, it should write elsewhere
if that is unavailable, and ideally in a way that doesn't require
every sysadmin or end-user to hardcode some environment variable
in their package.json specifically for nyc or spawn-wrap.

A common way to communicate this intent is with the XDG_CACHE_HOME
environment variable.

Fixes #951.
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Krinkle authored and coreyfarrell committed Jan 15, 2019
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if (argv.all) nyc.addAllFiles()

var env = {
// Support running nyc as a user without HOME (e.g. linux 'nobody'),
// https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc/issues/951
SPAWN_WRAP_SHIM_ROOT: process.env.SPAWN_WRAP_SHIM_ROOT || process.env.XDG_CACHE_HOME || require('os').homedir(),
NYC_CONFIG: JSON.stringify(argv),
NYC_CWD: process.cwd(),
NYC_ROOT_ID: nyc.rootId,
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