Re: Dillo temporary directory

"Benjamin Johnson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <op.v5w4xovowkf1rx@boinggloing>
Jorge wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:11:48AM +0100, Georg Potthast wrote:
> > I observe that Dillo changes the current directory to "\tmp" when
> > running. Why does it do that and what files shall be written into
> > this directory?
>    No files, Dillo tries to work from an unmounted directory.
>  --  Cheers
>   Jorge.-

But *why* does Dillo work from an unmounted directory?  What advantage  
does this provide, especially if Dillo does not write any files there?

(As a side note, /tmp _is_ mounted on many systems, like OpenBSD.)

Cheers,
~Benjamin
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