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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote:
>They are not reset but during an strace I discovered that cygwin will
>internally default to the system defined TEMP if one isn't defined in
>cygwin.  In other words if it has been unset.  This is similar to
>linux using /tmp by default if none is defined at all.

I don't know how you could come to that conclusion from reading strace
output.  AFAIK, Cygwin does not treat TEMP specially.

This thread certainly is a tempest in a teapot.

cgf

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