hi friends,

first a little background. we are porting a project from windows to solaris.

In windows ,for each user we can setup tmp directories using TMP or TEMP env variables. is it possible in solaris?

upto my knowledge we have only /tmp and usr/tmp?

and another thing is , is there any equivalent for gettemppath() win api in solaris?

thanks in advance,
harish

You shouldn't have any problems setting up a users own tmp type directory most likely in their own home directory.

Not sure about the "gettemppath() win api in solaris", I'd have to look into that one.

It can be dangerous to set up a tmp dir for the users in their own
home directory. If you plan on using a lot of space (or even if it's
possible), you don't want to put their tmp directory in their home
directory -- this could cause the user to be locked out of the
system if they happen to go over quota because of the temporary
files. You should, instead, make a /tmp/username/appname (or
/tmp/appname/username) directory. This is safer, /tmp is by
default writable by the world. You should also give the user a
choice as to where the tmp directory is.
I'm not sure what the getttmppath() win API is, but you can
always set an environvent variable called APP_TMP, and use
the C function calls to grab that variable when necessary, if
that's what you are talking about.

Common temp file locations in Solaris are /tmp and /var/tmp. You'll notice that /usr/tmp is really a symlink to /var/tmp. You may also want to note that on a standard Solaris install, /tmp is taken from swap space unless a separate slice is created.

hi friends,

thanks for the information.

http://soldc.sun.com/ntmigration/ntt...emulation.html
has got the implementation for gettemppath() win api. The implementaiton returns
/tmp and /var/tmp directories only to the user and if /tmp or /var/tmp is not available they return the current dir[getcwd()] of the process.

Iam thinking of using it.

thanks,
harish