Couple of updates regarding readline capabilities

lib/core/option.py

@@ -1413,6 +1413,41 @@ def _checkDependencies():
     if conf.dependencies:
         checkDependencies()
 
+def _createHomeDirectories():
+    """
+    Creates directories inside sqlmap's home directory
+    """
+
+    for context in "output", "history":
+        directory = paths["SQLMAP_%s_PATH" % context.upper()]
+        try:
+            if not os.path.isdir(directory):
+                os.makedirs(directory)
+
+            _ = os.path.join(directory, randomStr())
+            open(_, "w+b").close()
+            os.remove(_)
+
+            if conf.outputDir and context == "output":
+                warnMsg = "using '%s' as the %s directory" % (directory, context)
+                logger.warn(warnMsg)
+        except (OSError, IOError) as ex:
+            try:
+                tempDir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="sqlmap%s" % context)
+            except Exception as _:
+                errMsg = "unable to write to the temporary directory ('%s'). " % _
+                errMsg += "Please make sure that your disk is not full and "
+                errMsg += "that you have sufficient write permissions to "
+                errMsg += "create temporary files and/or directories"
+                raise SqlmapSystemException(errMsg)
+
+            warnMsg = "unable to %s %s directory " % ("create" if not os.path.isdir(directory) else "write to the", context)
+            warnMsg += "'%s' (%s). " % (directory, getUnicode(ex))
+            warnMsg += "Using temporary directory '%s' instead" % getUnicode(tempDir)
+            logger.warn(warnMsg)
+
+            paths["SQLMAP_%s_PATH" % context.upper()] = tempDir
+
 def _createTemporaryDirectory():
     """
     Creates temporary directory for this run.
@@ -2500,6 +2535,7 @@ def init():
     _cleanupEnvironment()
     _purge()
     _checkDependencies()
+    _createHomeDirectories()
     _createTemporaryDirectory()
     _basicOptionValidation()
     _setProxyList()