the case of a missing /tmp directory
the case of a missing /tmp directory
- Subject: the case of a missing /tmp directory
- From: Chris Silverberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:14:23 -0800
- Organization: Silverberg.Net
Hi folks,
This may be more of a darwin question, but I'm going to ask the kind people
on this list first. I recently had a customer report a problem he was
having with my software... and after some debugging we found the problem.
No /tmp directory existed. Now, at this point I'm not certain if just the
symbolic link was missing, or if the actual /private/tmp directory was
missing... but since the problem started just happening a few days ago, I
suspect the symbolic link was blown away somehow.
So, problem easily solved... but this raised some questions in my mind...
1. How reliable is the existance of /tmp? Are there legitimate reasons it
might not exist?
2. If it does not exist, should I treat it as a fatal error or should I take
some action?
3. Are there any Cocoa or UNIX api's that might help repair this problem?
4. Will MacOS X self-repair the problem (perhaps on reboot) or is this
something the user needs to do?
thanks much,
Chris
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