Re: Why unset TMPDIR

At 10:19 12/07/1999 -0700, Michael Saunders wrote:
>Why does the HTLib.c module unset the "TMPDIR" environment variable? Some
>applications using LibWWW may rely on this environment variable. The
comments in
>the code say the if we have the "tmpnam()" function we can unset "TMPDIR"
>environment variable. Why this side effect? Is this to get consistent
behavior
>across multiple platforms?

Luc Van Eycken solved this, see his patch:

	http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libwww/Library/src/HTInet.c#rev2.27
	http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libwww/Library/src/HTLib.c#rev2.17

Henrik
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
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Received on Monday, 12 July 1999 15:49:17 UTC