On 10/8/14, 1:17 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>> Yeah... where?
>>
>> Wherever $TMPDIR says to. If $TMPDIR doesn't name a writable directory,
>> bash looks for various system definitions (P_tmpdir), finally defaulting
>> to /tmp or /var/tmp.
> ----
> P_tmpdir? in ENV?
No. P_tmpdir is a #define in stdio.h that holds the full pathname of the
compilation environment's preferred temporary directory.
> I don't have TMP or TMPDIR in my env during normal runtime
> and tmp's were put in /tmp...
Then P_tmpdir is probaby "/tmp".
> I don't know where they were going
> @ boot time, as /tmp and /var/tmp were writeable, but still
> TMP/TMPDIR were unset.
Did you verify $TMPDIR?
>> Please. Your assumptions about what is going on make your conclusions
>> shaky at best.
> ----
> Um...assumptions were that tmp files weren't getting created
> in standard locations of /tmp or /var/tmp for unknown reasons. Interactively
> and @ run time, it works fine... it's probably some library bash is linking
> with...
Since the thing that differs is $TMPDIR, presumably its value when
executing in the boot-time environment, you might want to start with
looking at that.
Chet
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