get rid of tmp directories?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> Do you know of anyone who runs systems without any world-writable
> tmp directories?
> 
> It seems like it is not needed. Some programs will honor TMP
> variable and other programs may let you define where your tmp
> directory is at. So each user and each program could have their own
> directories that are owned and only writable by their own uid.

Yeah, that reminds me, is there any lib or any thing that is usually
used for grabbing name/location for temp files, or is this usually
handled by a program it's self?

If there is, the possibility of changing it to use ~/tmp or something
of the like, is a interesting idea.