On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:30:04 +0100
Gilles Chanteperdrix <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Henning Schild wrote:
> > The environment variable TMPDIR is optional and not always set. We
> > could test for it and fall back to /tmp/ or just use the tool
> > mktemp.
> 
> I am not sure mktemp is available everywhere. What about setting
> TMPDIR to /tmp if not set ?

>From what i can tell mktemp is more widely available than TMPDIR. My
gentoo boxes do not have TMPDIR set and i have used a ubuntu system
where it was not set either. mktemp is part of coreutils and even
busybox has one.
I did not feel too good reimplementing whatever else mktemp does, why
reinvent the wheel?

Henning

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