Re: The $TEMP env var

[Derek Robert Price]

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Jim.Hyslop wrote:

>Derek Robert Price wrote:
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>>My XP only has TMP set.  Are you sure you or your IT department isn't
>>running a special script to set your TEMP?
>
>It's possible. I have a vanilla XP machine at home I can verify this on.


Thanks.  I think my XP here is vanilla enough that I'm not running
anything to *unset* $TEMP.

>>A quick google search shows that UNIX programs _do_ have a tendency to
>>honor one or more of $TMPDIR, $TMP, or $TEMP.  Is there a standard for
>>this?  _Should_ CVS be honoring whichever of them it finds first like
>>our documentation states?  If so, then would it be okay to honor all
>>three on Windows too just to avoid #ifdefs?
>
>I think it would be OK. I suspect the likelihood of an application using a
>TMPDIR variable to mean something other than "temporary directory" is
pretty
>low. (assuming the search order checks TMPDIR first).


As CVS is documented to check $TMPDIR first and is currently only
checking $TMPDIR, this is probably a reasonable idea.  I'll update the
source soon if nobody provides a reasonable objection.

Derek

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