On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Karl O. Pinc <k...@meme.com> wrote: > FYI After poking about the man pages of various Un*xs I find: > > login(1) does not have to set $TMPDIR, although the whole > login process can be configured to do so there's no > requirement that $TMPDIR exist.
This is so strange discussion. OKOKOKOKOKOK there is no TMPDIR so you fallback to /tmp What's wrong with that? /tmp exists in POSIX and it is totally valid. If system need to override this it declares the TMPDIR globally. Please stop trying to find problems where not exist.