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Date:      Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:08:14 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xemacs installs world writable dir 
Message-ID:  <199711071908.VAA18132@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> > > > Surely there must be some less religiously offensive way?
> > 
> > Right. I'd go with /var/tmp/<portname>/ (at a quick guess).
> 
> Well, at a minimum, then, couldn't it respect the user's TMPDIR variable?
> I don't put my tmp stuff in the /, and I don't have a separate /var.  I
> set TMPDIR to /usr/tmp, which is large enough not to care.

How does the app work? It may _need_ a common (hardwired) dir to put 
its locks in. Something that cannot be overridden by its users.

M
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