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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:46:43 +0200
From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: environment variables derived from TMPDIR
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* Ralf Fassel
| | Does it work to pass the contents of the file on stdin instead of
| | the file name as an argument?
| | 
| | external_program < "$TMPFILE"
| 
| Duh.  This should work in 95% of the cases.  In the other cases file
| size of TMPFILE is involved, so redirection would not work as-is.

Turns out that in most cases where a TMPFILE is required, it is
actually two temp files, and the temp file is the second input for the
program in question (stdin is the first).

So I guess we will change all the scripts to use a different
env-Variable when constructing the temp file name, and set that
variable on startup in the base-shell.

R'

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