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Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: Bug#267356: lynx-cur: mystery meat directories in /tm


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: Bug#267356: lynx-cur: mystery meat directories in /tmp
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:46:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Harry Doherty wrote:

> Wouldn't LYNX_TEMP_SPACE=/tmp/lynxtmp in the global
> .cfg give the desired effect?
> Or would you have to work around cleanup scripts
> deleting the directory?

lynx won't do a recursive mkdir to create the "lynxtmp" part of the
directory (and won't interpret "/tmp/lynxtmp" as a prefix), and of course
some systems delete everything under /tmp at startup.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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