Aaron Bannert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't like the idea of having environment variables drive things > like this. Temp directories are a great way to get programs to > write files wherever you want. I'd much rather have a function where > the global tempdir can be set and then retrieved later by > apr_get_temp_dir(). The nice thing about this is it doesn't incur > any processing overhead when apr_get_temp_dir() is called, and can > let apps like httpd create their own config directive for setting > the preferred tempdir.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but if all that exists are functions for setting and getting a tempdir, what is APR providing except a storage place for a program's code? I mean, that ignores the whole point of having it in APR -- the *portability* aspect.
