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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:18:40 -0400
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Mark Moore wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> If the permission on the folder pointed to by $TEMP is going to be changed
> during install, it seems to me it would be done by setup.exe.  If not, where
> would that operation be performed?
> 
> It looks like chmod doesn't cut it:
> 
> markm AT fatboy ~
> $ ls -ld $TEMP
> d---rwx---+   7 Administ SYSTEM      16384 Apr  5 00:10
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP
> 
> markm AT fatboy ~
> $ chmod +rw $TEMP
> 
> markm AT fatboy ~
> $ ls -ld $TEMP
> drw-rwxr--+   7 Administ SYSTEM      16384 Apr  5 00:10
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP
> 
> markm AT fatboy ~
> $ perldoc perldoc
> Error in tempfile() using /XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (/) is not writable
> at /usr/bin/perldoc line 564
> 
> markm AT fatboy ~
> $

How do you know that perldoc is using $TEMP?  It seems from that output 
that it's using '/'.



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