Re: Temp dir and PAR_CLEARTEMP

[Autrijus Tang]

(Please cc the list on your reply, if possible, thanks. :-))

Alan Stewart wrote:
On 2 Jan 2004 at 11:23, Autrijus Tang wrote:
How about, instead of $TEMP\par-$PID\ and $TEMP\par-$USER-$EXEID\, we
use
        $TEMP\par-$USER\tmp-$PID
        $TEMP\par-$USER\cache-$EXEID
$USER is redundant on systems where $TEMP is already a user dir, like XP defaulting to 
"Documents and Settings/$user/something".
True, but it doesn't hurt even if that's the case. :)

Anyway, one user can launch multiple copies and only the PID differs.
In that case, files in the cache will be used, which is why we're having
a cache in the first place. :)
I also don't think a firewall admin wants different firewall 
config for each user.
Well, "firewall" here means "personal firewall that uses per-executable
setting to allow/deny traffic" -- cf. Morbus's previous mails.
Anyway, I have checked in the code that implements the cache/temp 
directory semantics, using mtime as $EXEID.  I'll probably release 
0.77_98 soonish for people to try on it, and see if it breaks. :)

Thanks,
/Autrijus/