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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail.
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail. |
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Sun, 5 Mar 2017 19:35:24 -0800 |
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 7:26 PM, David Levine <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Not off hand. It looks like $MHTMPDIR was introduced between MH 6.8.5
> and the entry of nmh into CVS. MH 6.8.5 hard-coded the use of /tmp/.
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> The thread beginning at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-01/msg00043.html
> has the most recent discussion. But the introduction of ~/mail
> (`mhpath +`, actually) was before that.
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> Personally, I set $TMP.
The UNIX convention since forever has been to set $TMPDIR, on the assumption
that mktemp() and friends are taking care of things. I can't think of any
reason why MH should be special in this regard. This sounds like a candidate
for more code removal.
--lyndon