Thread: $TEMP or $TMP?
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Old 02-20-2008, 07:31 AM
ray
 
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Default Re: $TEMP or $TMP?

Laurenz Albe wrote:
> ray <nospam@example.com> wrote:
>
>> How do you know that /tmp is "required"? Not
>>really trying to argue, but does the kernel source spell out /tmp as a
>>requirement? Do programs just assume it's there and properly mounted?

>
>
> The POSIX standard requires that there is a /tmp directory.
> You may rely on the existence of that directory.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe


Works for me. Thank you for clearing that up.
I learn something new every day.

Ray
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