directories for temporary files

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi Reinhard

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Reinhard Kotucha  wrote:
> Hi,
> first of all, thanks to everyone involved in cygwin development.
>
> However, there is a bug in /etc/profile.  The variables TMP and TEMP
> are set to /tmp but they are absolutely useless.  These variables are
> not used by any program.

I do occasionally start Windows programs from the Cygwin prompt (e.g.
with cygstart). Those programs could conceivably make use of TEMP or
TMP.

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