On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The directory /tmp seems to be hardwired into some applications as a > repository for temporary files created during those applications' activity. > (Rather than using env. vars. TEMP or TMP, I mean.)
'/tmp' is the UNIX 'Recycle Bin'. Some programs may have hard-coded '/tmp' and some may use TMP or TMPDIR... > Is there a way of globally diverting such temporary files elsewhere, as in > "for /tmp read h:/temp throughout this session"? > > I've tried fiddling with all of alias, ln, mount, ..., but none of these > seem to provide quite what's needed. Well, `mount' should give you what you want here. Just mount H:\\temp /tmp do that before starting Cygwin. > (Reason for asking: I am still experimenting with portable-Cygwin-on-a-CD. > Then the un-write-ability of the directory /tmp and possibly of other > directories too is occasionally proving to be problematic.) Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
