11 Oct
2010
11 Oct
'10
5:13 a.m.
On Sunday 10 October 2010 14:50:42 Jeff Flinn wrote:
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
On Saturday 09 October 2010 18:36:23 Jeff Flinn wrote: [...] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPDIR calls TMPDIR the "canonical Unix environment variable" and refers to the following for that justification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_ 08_03 [...]
- should both verify the path exists?
Yes. Question remains what fallbacks should be tried, e.g. "/tmp" on POSIX systems or environment variables on non-embedded win32.
Is the above reference sufficient to only rely on TMPDIR?
Yes, and thank you for that reference! Uli