Reinhard Kotucha writes: > 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.
They are used by Windows programs when they are started from Cygwin. Those lines are actually preceded by a comment that explains this. > 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. …and since the default already is /tmp there is no reason to set this variable explicitly in /etc/profile. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- 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
