Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!watshine!dmcanzi
From: dmcanzi@watshine.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: tail command creates temp file in current directory
Message-ID: <514@shine22.watshine.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 22:34:39 GMT
Reply-To: dmcanzi@watshine.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Distribution: uw
Organization: Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
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When the tail command is reading from a pipe, it tries to open a temp
file in the current directory.  This causes the command to fail when
the current directory is not writeable.  Temp files should be created
in /tmp.

-- 
David Canzi