Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX, change temp download dir from /tmp

[Mark H. Wood]

On 7 Apr 1998, Jason F. McBrayer wrote:

> >>>>> "MHW" == Mark H Wood <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> MHW> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> >> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> >> 
> >> > > Set "LYNX_TEMP_SPACE" to the directory you want in your environment.
> >> > 
> >> > Instead of the standard TMPDIR ?  :-(
> >>
> >> The /tmp/ directory is hardcoded into lynx at time of compilation in
> >> USERDEFS.H. See this extract:
> 
> MHW> So should I roll up my sleeves and fix this, or will I be met with a 
> MHW> storm of protest?
> 
> I thought the point of LYNX_TEMP_SPACE was for pointing it someplace
> other than the system-wide temp area?

You can do that by setting TMPDIR too, but it works for *all* scratch 
files.  Is there some reason for a user to want some of his scratch files 
to go here, and others there?  Where I'm going with this is that I feel 
there should usually not *be* a system-wide temp area; users should have 
their own scratch directories, avoiding lots of security problems.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   address@hidden
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