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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:17:00 -0500
From: "Kenneth Nellis" <knellis AT syntek-usa DOT com>
Subject: RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
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> From: Eric Blake 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> 
> <snip>
> Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mounted, and / does not contain
> a physical subdirectory named tmp, that bash refuses to start.  I'll
> consider ripping that out of bash, since it was an upstream chunk of code
> protected by __CYGWIN__ (ie. someone in the distant past, before I was
> maintainer, thought that such a cygwin-specific patch would be useful),
> and replacing it with mkdir("/tmp") instead.  Then the failure would only
> be if /tmp cannot be created, rather than that it did not exist.
> <snip>

I'm curious if Eric intends to reference /tmp directly, as opposed to
recognizing environment variable TMPDIR, if defined?
--Ken Nellis


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