> I've started to take up Paul Gear's suggestion of using strace, but I > can't make head or tail of it so far. I can only assume that he's correct > and that the file is held in memory as it's downloaded. I'm not super familiar with the file system under Linux, but is it possible to map a memory region to disk? I can think of several ways that up2date could actually be "using" the disk to hold the transient downloaded data WITHOUT an actual filename showing up in some directory. Perhaps it commits the downloaded data to the swap area, or perhaps it's using some form of file-system supported "temporary file" mechanism. Both of these methods could use the disk to hold the downloaded data without a file showing up in a directory somewhere. Also, when a file is open for CREATE/WRITE operations under Linux, unless something like flush() or any other "commit-type" function is called, I'm not sure if the actually file would show up in an "ls" command until the file was actually committed to disk (like flush or close). If a filename WAS being used (that could be located for whatever reason), I would guess it would be in /tmp or perhaps /var/tmp. Is the up2date source code available? If so, perhaps you could find out by looking at the source. BB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oisin C. Feeley" <ofeeley@yahoo.com> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Monday October 21, 2002 20:58 Subject: Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > > Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > > > The rpm doesn't appear in /var/spool/up2date until > > > it is 100% downloaded. > > > > Out of curiosity, do you have up2date configured to save the RPMs on > > disk after they are installed? > > > > Yes, here's part of the output of "up2date-nox --configure" > > 7. storageDir /var/spool/up2date > > 24. keepAfterInstall Yes > > > and after an rpm shows 100% downloaded in its progress bar then it's > stored in /var/spool/up2date as specified, but _during_ the download I > can't find out where the file is stored. > > I've started to take up Paul Gear's suggestion of using strace, but I > can't make head or tail of it so far. I can only assume that he's correct > and that the file is held in memory as it's downloaded. > > Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
