On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
>On 5 Mar 2001, at 10:15, the Illustrious Harry Erwin wrote:
>> I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check
>> your mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs.
>
> It should also be readable...as I recall, (and I am open to
>corrections on this); cygwin uses the /tmp drive (wherever it is
>defined or mounted as) for certain core cygwin processes (I am not
>familiar enough with the API to comment on which ones).
% cd /cygnus/src/winsup/cygwin
% grep /tmp *.cc
%
The Cygwin DLL does not use /tmp for anything, AFAIK.
Bash uses /tmp, though.
cgf
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