From 0ee2e5def26c89b64ba5200d9256304d9c5c2331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Droettboom <mdboom@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:26:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Put user's name in the temp directory that gets created when
 the home directory is not writable.  Fixes race conditions on a multi-user
 machine discovered by Matt Anderson.

---
 lib/matplotlib/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
index caa39b817c60..a31e6f0e4cf2 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
@@ -471,9 +471,11 @@ def _create_tmp_config_dir():
     If the config directory can not be created, create a temporary
     directory.
     """
+    import getpass
     import tempfile
 
-    tempdir = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'matplotlib')
+    tempdir = os.path.join(
+        tempfile.gettempdir(), 'matplotlib-%s' % getpass.getuser())
     os.environ['MPLCONFIGDIR'] = tempdir
 
     return tempdir