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From: <sten.kristian.ivarsson@gmail.com>
To: "'Hans-Bernhard Bröker'" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Sv: TMP/TEMP environment variable and /tmp
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:12:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001d68ceb$ce417d90$6ac478b0$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e5ab93b-9b0b-6855-d5da-365da48ecce2@t-online.de>

> >>> Does anyone know the rational with this behaviour and what can be
> >>> done to get hold of the (real) Windows TMP/TEMP
> >>> environment-variable-values (in a
> >>> (hopefully) platform independent way) ?
> 
> >> so if you are making your custom tree, try to stick on that
> >> expectation and have both directories.
> > In general, you are free to set TMP to a directory of your choice,
> > that's the purpose of that variable, no need to sync it with some root.
> > There is a comment in /etc/profile:
> >    # TMP and TEMP as defined in the Windows environment
> >    # can have unexpected consequences for cygwin apps, but it does not
> > explain what consequences that might be; probably some trouble with
> > ACL/access permissions for temporary files.
> 
> Nowadays that would be $LOCALAPPDATA/Temp, or if you really insist, the
> content of /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Environment/TMP (or TEMP),
> after similarly expanding environment variable references found in that.
> 
> The fact that getting Windows' idea of the user's TEMP directory is not
> immediately platform independent may well have been part of the rationale
> for not even trying that.


Well, at least it's up to the user

If the user sets its TMP-variable to "C:\Jabba Dabba Dooo" or "/jabba dabba doo", I expect the value of getenv("TMP") should be just that and regardless of OS the value returned is whatever the variable is set to and not magically changed to "/tmp"


Best regards,
Kristian

[snip]



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-17 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16  8:51 sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-09-16 11:04 ` marco atzeri
2020-09-16 11:12   ` Thomas Wolff
2020-09-16 19:27     ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2020-09-17 12:12       ` sten.kristian.ivarsson [this message]
2020-09-17 15:23         ` Sv: " Thomas Wolff
2020-09-17 21:07           ` Kristian Ivarsson
2020-09-17 21:55             ` Ken Brown
2020-09-17 23:58               ` Doug Henderson
2020-09-18  2:17                 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-18  3:56                   ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-18  5:56               ` Kristian Ivarsson
2020-09-18 13:15                 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-21  7:57                   ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-09-20  7:20         ` Andrey Repin
2020-09-17 16:13     ` Ken Brown

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