Re: Default tempdir

[Rhys Ulerich]

> This leads me to believe we need an option --tmpdir and $TMPDIR to set
> where the tmp dir should be.
>
> My question is now: What should the default be? /tmp or current directory.
>
> On the systems you use which would make more sense: /tmp or current
> dir or dontcare?

I'd follow tmpfile(3)'s behavior: "Glibc  will  try  the path prefix
P_tmpdir defined
in <stdio.h>, and if that fails the directory /tmp."  Both for the precedent and
because hitting slow NFS-mounted disk by using the current working directory
would be crippling.

- Rhys