gpg-agent (2.0.7) hardcodes usage of /tmp directory

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Mar 11 12:13:30 CET 2008


On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:51, flameeyes at gmail.com said:

> All in all, I still fail to see why hardcoding /tmp is better than
> respecting TMPDIR.

Because it does not work.  TMPDIR is commonly used if you need more
space for temporary files and thus it is likely to be mounted on a
remote file system.

FWIW, ssh-agent also hard codes /tmp.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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