On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:59:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> # For privacy and security, set temporary directories to ~/tmp
on local
> # filesystems -- but for network filesystems, make up one in /tmp.
> # The trap statement cleans up the temporary directory if it's empty on
Why not use /tmp/<username> instead?
Because avoiding using predictable filenames is one of the advantages.
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