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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail.
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh's Temporary Directory: ~/mail. |
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Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:12:52 -0500 |
Lyndon wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 2017, at 7:26 PM, David Levine <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > 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/.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Personally, I set $TMP.
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> 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.
Right, $TMP support was removed from nmh a while ago. I mispoke, I should have
said that I set $TMPDIR to /tmp.
David