Lars Weber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Final note: an expirefs-translator could even be useful by itself for > things like the /tmp directory.
i've thought about this, too, but i wonder if it would not violate some Unix standard (Posix?) in some way? i don't have any such standard in front of me, so i can't say for sure. but it seems like that for /tmp to be useful, it has to guarantee at least *some* integrity. e.g. one common use of /tmp (in the world of GNU) is when compiling with gcc without the -pipe option. envision a very perverse situation, where many users are doing many compilations at once (the system would have to be under *very* high load), and gcc dumps its temporary .S files to /tmp. wouldn't it be possible that one of those .S files "expires" before the assembler even gets a chance to look at it? would this violate some sort of Unix standard? -- /"\ m i k e b u r r e l l \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED] X AGAINST HTML MAIL, / \ AND NEWS TOO, dammit _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
