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Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote:
>They are not reset but during an strace I discovered that cygwin will
>internally default to the system defined TEMP if one isn't defined in
>cygwin. In other words if it has been unset. This is similar to
>linux using /tmp by default if none is defined at all.
I don't know how you could come to that conclusion from reading strace
output. AFAIK, Cygwin does not treat TEMP specially.
This thread certainly is a tempest in a teapot.
cgf
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