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lack of documentation on use of $TMPDIR
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Eric Blake |
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lack of documentation on use of $TMPDIR |
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Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:34:18 -0600 |
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It would be nice if the Shell Variables section of documentation mentions
that $TMPDIR can affect where temporary files are created, and situations
where that happens (such as when processing here-docs). Furthermore, the
FILES section should mention that when TMPDIR is not defined, the tmpdir
search proceeds through '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', and '.', for the
first directory writable by the current user. Bash 3.0 does not document
this anywhere, so I had to go digging through the source code to find it
(see lib/sh/tmpfile.c).
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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