On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
/var/tmp is the most appropriate definition for this, at least “universally”.
Agreed.
Since P_tmpdir is documented by POSIX, the string it defines is often
burned into application binaries. For example, it is burned into
GraphicsMagick. It becomes as concrete as the ABI.
Programs like 'vi' write their working files to /var/tmp so that they
are not lost if the terminal goes away or the system reboots. The
restoration of /var/tmp after boot is a contract with the
applications.
As someone who always defines TMPDIR in his shell environment, I have
learned from experience that some software (particularly software
installers) is inconsistent and looks in /var/tmp for temporary files
which were written elsewhere due to TMPDIR.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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