On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:57:59PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote: > >Generally in this type of situation, I use a browser cookie that > >contains a single number : the identity field of a table in a > >database. Then I store user preferences and everything in the > >database. > > You say you're a web developer... this is what PHP does, but all > internally. you just interact with one variable and it handles > dealing with the id-cookie, etc. By default, it writes to files in > /tmp -- in mythweb, I tell it to write to the php_sessions because > /tmp occasionally gets wiped.
That sounds odd (or maybe not). FWIW, I think the convention is that stuff in /tmp is not guaranteed to survive a reboot (hence, many UNIXes use "tmpfs" or some swap-like "fs" for /tmp). "Temporary" stuff that should survive a reboot is "supposed" to go under /var (/var/tmp, etc.), but then that software is supposed to be responsible for cleaning up after itself. --Rob
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