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Re: the directory named TEMP or TMP


On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:13:42AM +0200, Martin Pirker wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>--- Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> wrote:
>> Cygwin itself doesn't need /tmp (nor does it ever
>> need it) but many
>> UNIX tools need it. Bash for example still warns the
>> user if it can't
>> find /tmp.
>> 
>> However, if you use the current setup tool, it
>> creates /tmp by itself.
>
>
>I have a somewhat related problem:
>Given: Unix program ported/crosscompiled with cygwin to run under Win.
>-> Executable + cygwin1.dll on target machine, _no_ full cygwin
>environment.
>However unix code uses "tmpnam" for temp filename.
>Creation of returned file "/tmp/whatever" fails...
>
>I think this is no miracle, since there's no full cygwin enviroment,
>so where should /tmp files go to ?
>
>Options:
>- Edit unix sources on all places with tmpnam
>Not a good idea...
>- Patch Cygwin somewhere so propor filenames are returned.
>Don't like that either.
>- Maybe this is setupable with a enviroment var ?
>I have to assume the end users are too dumb to do this every time :/
>
>- There's some magic to fix this better...
>Now that would be nice :)
>
>Hints greatly appreciated.....

I *really* don't understand the question.

Why don't you just create /tmp?

bash
mkdir /tmp

is this really that difficult a problem?

cgf

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