Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Indeed.  I'm not sure what should be done here.  The reason for the
> hard-coded /tmp is that the emacsclient process and the emacs server
> process may be executed from different contexts (different login
> sessions for example), so it's not clear that they would use the same
> $TMPDIR setting.

If one wants to open a client for a different server it might either use
the --socket-name option or change TMPDIR for emacsclient itself.

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