diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index e79159c..33aa013 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@
         self.assertEquals(rc, 2)
 
     def test_cwd(self):
-        tmpdir = os.getenv("TEMP", "/tmp")
+        tmpdir = tempfile.gettempdir()
         # We cannot use os.path.realpath to canonicalize the path,
         # since it doesn't expand Tru64 {memb} strings. See bug 1063571.
         cwd = os.getcwd()