Issue #8746: Use tempfile module to get tempdir and randomize the
link file name.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index 5563050..09f04ec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
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):