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Re: OT: TMPDIR

Subject: Re: OT: TMPDIR
From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:46:56 -0800

On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Nathaniel Gray wrote:

This is somewhat off-topic, but considering there are some actual
Apple BSD guys reading this list...  What's up with the new TMPDIR
stuff in Leopard?

[n8gray@golux]% env | grep TMP
TMPDIR=/var/folders/w4/w4D9BUXw2RWE7++8ZOIMn++++TU/-Tmp-/
[n8gray@golux]% ls /var/folders
+5/ 9e/ Qd/ w4/ zz/

It's using Special launchd Sauce to securely create these directories. I don't yet know of any formal documentation, but you might take a peek at its implementation: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/system_cmds-431/dirhelper.tproj/ -- Ben Byer CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer

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