On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:12:24AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> 
> IMHO, both the old and the newer code are wrong. they should use
> getenv("TMPDIR") if any and certainly not the current directory.
> there is probably more room in ${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp} then in the
> current directory. imagine that the current fs is nearly full...

I'm disinclined to use a file in $TMPDIR or in /tmp because of the
bad effect it has on the complexity of the code, and I think that
if you are running out of disk space then you deserve to lose.
Though I'm open to other opinions.

Tony.
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