From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:42:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: shell: Use ~/tmp as tempdir if available.
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shell: Use ~/tmp as tempdir if available.
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diff --git a/shell/env b/shell/env
index a119eaf..38ee013 100644
--- a/shell/env
+++ b/shell/env
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ export EDITOR
 PAGER=less
 export PAGER
 
+# Use ~/tmp as directory for temporary files if available to reduce security
+# problems on multi-user systems.
+if [ -d ~/tmp ]; then
+    TMP=~/tmp
+    TMPDIR=$TMP
+    export TMP TMPDIR
+fi
+
 # Set colors for GNU ls (and zsh completions). This colors files normal (fi),
 # directories blue bold (di), symbolic links cyan (ln), named pipes normal
 # (pi), sockets normal (so), block devices normal (bd), character devices