/tmp using

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Fri Apr 22 14:03:24 CDT 2005


Vitaly Lipatov <lav at etersoft.ru> writes:

> I suppose to make patch for using TMPDIR environment variable as temp 
> directory if it is not empty.
> There is hardcoded path to /tmp for wine server directory, and I would like to 
> use ~/tmp dir...
> Will it change accepted and or it is not wrong intention?

No, the server directory has to be in /tmp so that all instances use
the same lock file. If you take into account environment variables
there is no guarantee that all server invocations will use the same
value.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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