Hi all, Many people around here complain that Gimp leaves enormous swap files when crashing. It is especially a pain since they are in a "hidden" subdirectory. Would it be possible to have Gimp unlink() the files after opening them? I explain: if we use swap files as follow: open them at the beginning and never close them until the end of execution of Gimp, then if we unlink() them after opening them they will get erased when Gimp exits, whether it exists gracefully or not. I don't know how swapping works in Gimp, so feel free to point me out the obvious reason why it doesn't work. :-) [There's another method: use a wrapper script that erases the files afterwards. That's workable, but not foolproof: if somebody launches two Gimp sessions simultaneously, that'll lead to mysterious problems. Also, yes I know swap files should go to a local filesystem, but even if we do that then we'd end up with tons of swap files in /var/tmp.] Regards, --- David Monniaux Tel: +33 1 44 32 20 66 Fax: +33 1 44 32 20 80 Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm - 75230 PARIS cedex 5 - FRANCE
