Hi, first of all, thanks to everyone involved in cygwin development. However, there is a bug in /etc/profile. The variables TMP and TEMP are set to /tmp but they are absolutely useless. These variables are not used by any program. Thus all programs write temporary files to /tmp, regardless of the settings TMP or TEMP.
The appropriate variable on Unix is TMPDIR. It's recognized by programs on *all* Unix systems. You can confirm this easily. Create a directory /tmp/foo and set TMPDIR=/tmp/foo. You'll see that all temporary files go to the specified directory then. No chance with TMP or TEMP. Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotu...@web.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple