CVSROOT: /sources/m4
Module name: m4
Changes by: Eric Blake <ericb> 06/10/06 18:24:32
Index: doc/m4.texinfo
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RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.59
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -b -r1.59 -r1.60
--- doc/m4.texinfo 6 Oct 2006 15:24:10 -0000 1.59
+++ doc/m4.texinfo 6 Oct 2006 18:24:31 -0000 1.60
@@ -3919,6 +3919,8 @@
(512K, currently). When this maximum is about to be exceeded,
a temporary file is opened to receive the contents of the biggest
diversion still in memory, freeing this memory for other diversions.
+When creating the temporary file, @code{m4} honors the value of the
+environment variable @env{TMPDIR}, and falls back to @file{/tmp}.
So, it is theoretically possible that the number of diversions be
limited by the number of available file descriptors.
