[Ecls-list] (compile) leaks zero-length temporary files

[Mark Hoemmen]

Josh Elsasser wrote:
> If none of those three variables are set then it falls back to the
> current directory.  It seems to me that /tmp would be a more sane
> default than . in that case.

Wouldn't you want to save /tmp for things like system files?  Filling up
/tmp can often bring a system down.  I've seen it happen multiple times
on a cluster front-end node that uses /tmp for hosting job files, where
people were also using /tmp for hosting their own files.

mfh