dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:31:28 -0700
> Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>> Brian Cameron wrote:
>>> Some programs which use TMPDIR may depend on the fact that /var/tmp
>>> is persistent across reboots.
>
>> Then those programs are broken since the user can affect TMPDIR by
>> setting it as an environment variable.
>
> That might be, but why should we give up the difference betwee
> persistent / non persistent. why not keep both?
TMPDIR is defined by POSIX/UNIX03 as the location for temporary files that
programs remove before exiting, so /var/tmp can remain persistent, while
making TMPDIR point to /tmp.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
