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Re: Problems with an NT Installation

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
>On 5 Mar 2001, at 10:15, the Illustrious Harry Erwin wrote:
>> I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check
>> your mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs.
>
>	It should also be readable...as I recall, (and I am open to 
>corrections on this); cygwin uses the /tmp drive (wherever it is 
>defined or mounted as) for certain core cygwin processes (I am not 
>familiar enough with the API to comment on which ones).

	% cd /cygnus/src/winsup/cygwin
	% grep /tmp *.cc
	%

The Cygwin DLL does not use /tmp for anything, AFAIK.

Bash uses /tmp, though.

cgf

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