From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-27T00:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: New tmpdir.rb in CVS /lib

Hi,

In message "New tmpdir.rb in CVS /lib"
    on 03/07/27, "daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> writes:

|Could we know why the change from using GetTempPath in the new tmpdir.rb
|
|  A) Access permissions ?
|  B) Problem under Terminal Server ?
|  C) No Unicode support ?
|  D) tmpdir should be personal to user ?
|  E) tmpdir should be common to all users on system ?
|  F) Not available on all Win32 versions.
|  G) Don't worry, just testing.
|  H) Similar to G), but we 'screwed-up' for the very first time ;-)
|  I) Other ?
|
|<CHANGELOG>
|# Thu Jul 24 01:32:04 2003  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
|#
|# * lib/tmpdir.rb (tmpdir): new method.  remove TMPDIR.
|#   use GetSystemWindowsDirectory(GetSystemDirectory), not GetTempPath.
|</>

From things I've heard, behavior of GetTempPath varies Windows version
to version, besides it uses environment variable inside which make
taintness check difficult.

							matz.