Kuba Ober wrote: >> Why not? I don't want other users to break my lyx installation, why >> should they be able to? > > Umm, your files in /tmp belong to you! Look at lyx's temporary directory > already in /tmp.
Of course they do. The problem is when they belong to some other user. If the name is fixed someone else can creates a file with that name before me. Lyx files in tmp have unique filenames (like lyx_tmpdir17385KEcV5v), and then don't have this problem. Alfredo
