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Luc Van Eycken: HTLibInit sets the environment variable TMPDIR to ""
(which is not the same as unsetting it, as the comment claims) so the
function tempnam (in HTGetTmpFileName) does not get confused. However
this assumes that HTGetTmpFileName is the only user of TMPDIR, which
is not at all evident since this is part of a library which can be
linked to any other kind of program. In fact I ran into this problem
using xdvi, which calls a script mktexpk containing
"TEMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/mt$$.tmp". If TMPDIR is set to "", this
results in an unusable TEMPDIR = /mt$$.tmp.  In my opinion, the
correct way to do it, is to change TMPDIR only locally in
HTGetTmpFileName and I hope that someone can make the appropriate
changes.