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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: XP and /tmp directory
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:14:19 +0200
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From Robert Pollard:
> I have a situation where when i start cygwin, the program say's i have
> to create a folder /tmp.
>
> I saw one response to this post but it didn't give any detail as to
> what the permanent solution would be.  In other words, what do I have
> to do to make the program see /tmp wherever it is.

$ mkdir /tmp
WFFM - i.e. Works Fine For Me

> Any ideas, thought, etc. are much appreciated.

As the Windows environment is visible as:

$ set | grep TEMP
TEMP=/cygdrive/d/TEMP
TMP=/cygdrive/d/TEMP
TMPDIR=/cygdrive/d/TEMP

i.e. *I* do have D: (/cygdrive/d/) as Windows TEMP storage. It actually also
holds all active page/swapfiles.

 It might be possible to
$ rmdir /tmp
$ ln -s ${TEMP} /tmp

or maybe
$ rm -rf /tmp
$ mkdir /tmp
$ mount -f -s -b "`cygpath -w ${TEMP}" "/tmp"

I've tried none of the last two... Ideas/Comments anyone?


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