> I mean you can put 'ulimit -f 0' in /etc/profile. Nothing prevents you from
> doing it. Most program fail when you do this. Should they manually unset
> the limit? Obviously not. Why should setting TEMPDIR be any different?

I see how that is problematic...but are you saying even if checking is done, setting TMPDIR in /etc/profile is a stupid setting?

Why does the finger program check / need to know if TMPDIR exists anyway?
 
!tr