Re: [boost] [filesystem] temp_dir_path()

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] temp_dir_path()
From: Ulrich Eckhardt (doomster_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-11 01:13:59

On Sunday 10 October 2010 14:50:42 Jeff Flinn wrote:
> Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 October 2010 18:36:23 Jeff Flinn wrote:
[...]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPDIR calls TMPDIR the "canonical Unix
> environment variable" and refers to the following for that justification:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_
> 08_03
[...] 
>>> - should both verify the path exists?
>> 
>> Yes. Question remains what fallbacks should be tried, e.g. "/tmp" on
>> POSIX systems or environment variables on non-embedded win32.
> 
> Is the above reference sufficient to only rely on TMPDIR?

Yes, and thank you for that reference!

Uli