get rid of tmp directories?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:56:04PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT)
> "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> 
> > Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable
> > tmp directories?
> > 
> > It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP
> > variable and other programs may let you define where your tmp
> > directory is at. So each user and each program could have their own
> > directories that are owned and only writable by their own uid.
> 
> Yeah, that reminds me, is there any lib or any thing that is usually
> used for grabbing name/location for temp files, or is this usually
> handled by a program it's self?
> 
> If there is, the possibility of changing it to use ~/tmp or something
> of the like, is a interesting idea.

See my email.

Kris
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