Alejandro Colomar (Monday, July 18, 2022 14:07) > MacOS seems to be setting TMPDIR (or at least some script run at > startup seems to be setting it in my system), and it's set to something > really weird that I don't trust will exist after reboot.
Then I think the way you're using tmpdir doesn't match its usual semantics, namely that it's exactly a directory that's routinely blown away and recreated, at least as often as boot-time and ideally more often. If what you need is a place to store (even semi-) persistent state for a program, that should survive reboots, then you want $prefix/var/, not /tmp/ (which may well be a tmpfs partition, indeed). Eddy.