On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:15:45PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > Yeah, that's better than just blindly using ~/tmp/. But why have the > extra complexity? Why not always do mktemp and the bind+namespace > magic? This does have some advantage -- all users' tmp dirs are created > the way the admin intended when he set the system up, and they're easy > to find if he needs to look for them, for whatever reason. There is another ~/tmp problem to worry about. Quite a few programs behave badly on start up if they can't write to their tmp files. ~/tmp combined with quota will make this worse. Alan (who used /tmp/$USER as /tmp when playing with this stuff) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
