[SUREFIRE-764] java.io.tmpdir from MAVEN_OPTS should be inherited when forking

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: Maven Failsafe Plugin, Maven Surefire Plugin, process forking
• Environment: n/a
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anders Hammar
• Created: 25/Aug/11 02:59
• Updated: 23/Jun/15 23:47
• Resolved: 23/Jun/15 23:47

Description

For Maven 3 freestyle jobs in Hudson you can select "Private temporary directory". This will set "MAVEN_OPTS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=..." for the Maven execution.
However, surefire/failsafe plugin forks by default and the forked process will then not be using this temp directory as the new JVM settings are not inherited from MAVEN_OPTS.

I'm suggesting that java.io.tmpdir should be inherited from MAVEN_OPTS, if specified.