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Subject: Re: [boost] [FileSystem] portable Temp, Desktop & Applications directories
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-31 16:29:25


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jeff Flinn
<TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Is there any existing facility to get in particular the path to the user's
> temp directory in FileSystem?

No, nothing yet.

> I couldn't find one in boost_1_35_0, but I've might have missed it. Any
> plans for this functionality?

There have been several requests related to temporary files and directories,
but nothing has gelled.

> On Win and Mac there's getenv TEMP/TmpDir, or is there a better way.

That's a good bet for now.

--Beman


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