Re: server stuff

[Dave Love]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs/address@hidden> writes:

> I wasn't thinking about "is there a problem if it's not local" (I know
> that the answer is generally "yes"), but rather "is TMP or TMPDIR often
> pointing to a non-local directory".

That seems a likely reason for setting it.  E.g. we have large
networked scratch areas to which I might set TMPDIR if /tmp was full,
or likely to get full.

> As I said, I don't know what's the answer.  But since sticking
> to /tmp sidesteps the whole question, it's probably better to do that,
> indeed.

I think so.  It's compatible with openssh, for instance, in case I
didn't say so before.