Ed Hartnett wrote: > To accommodate this on machines with disk quotas, I want to allow the > user to specify to configure a directory in which large files can be > created during testing.
You might look into just having the user set TMPDIR (or through your configure option) to the directory for holding large files. Example: TMPDIR=/var/tmp mktemp -t myprog.XXXXXXXX /var/tmp/myprog.XXGWXbMk By setting TMPDIR a lot of programs will already automatically use it for temporary files. It may allow you to avoid a lot of pervasive changes through your code. Bob
