On Thursday 29 November 2007, Peter Clifton wrote: > I'm not sure I wholly agree here. /tmp is often cleared by > the distro on bootup, and an auto-save backup ought to > survive a power-failure incident. If /tmp is might be cleared > on the next boot, we should avoid saving such important files > there.
You need to assume that /tmp might be cleared at any time, perhaps by a cron job that runs every night, removing files that are more than xxx hours old. /tmp could be in memory, not a real disk. Regardless of what you think of these ideas, software needs to work correctly if someone configures their machine this way. Many times, I have appreciated the fact that the ~ files were there. Please keep it this way, at least by default. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
