Comment # 11 on bug 907041 from Guido Berhoerster

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #10)
> (In reply to Guido Berhoerster from comment #9)
> 
> > Why is TMPDIR actually set to /tmp in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession? And, if it is 
> > actually needed by anything can we move that to /etc/profile so that it is at 
> > least consistent independent of the login method?
> 
> TMPDIR is used to make sure that all tools used in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession do
> use it. We might reset it before we execute the final user scripts/shell in
> the shell function exec_login()

OK, I'll take care of that.