On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:58:25 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> There again, that's what the environment vars are for.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. You'd change the environment variables for
> each program?  That doesn't sound like a good idea.  And I expect there
> are some programs that use $TMP that expect certain semantics to go with
> it (like it gets cleaned up after a reboot) or some such, too.

No, that you'd have a path which was storage for temp files, system-
wide.  In *nix, ISTR there's a call to "create a temporary file", no need 
to track it by name because all the program needs is the file handle.

>> I'm talking on server - ACLs in AD, not the filesystem.  I could
>> probably reproduce it if it were worth my time. ;-)
> 
> Sure, I understand.

:-)  It was a great deal of fun to watch.

Jim

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