On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:23:23AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:35:15AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > Except for OS types or versions that don't support that, or people who > > actually want /tmp when they explicitly request it, even if > > TMPDIR=~/tmp is fine most of the time. > > For example, when your home directory is actually on an NFS mounted > volume. Changing your TMPDIR to ~/tmp is pretty much insane in that > case, setting yourself up for painfully slow write operations on files > that SHOULD be considered "throw-away" anyway.
~/tmp was just an example. You can aswell use $foofilesystem/$USER/tmp or whatever you want. The big difference is that we actually make this identical to /tmp for that particular user.
