Dear Vincent Danen, you wrote on Yesterday:
> Would it be possible to use the user's home directory somehow?
I cannot see a way to do this. Also, users may be upset if unexpectedly
something is written into their home directory. I might as well require
the user to copy the entire directory to their home directory before
carrying out the benchmark (then, at least, the user would know what
happens).
> I don't think placing world-writable dirs in %{_localstatedir} is a good
> idea. Or into /tmp/[package] or something like that?
Of course I was thinking of
%{_localstatedir}/[package]/[world-writable-dir].
The reason was that AFAIK there are two world-writable directories
on standard systems, /tmp and /var/tmp, both with permissions 1755,
where the sticky bit excludes that users delete files.
However, the best idea might be to install into a regular
non-world-writable directory
and make the output go to /tmp/[package]/something.
Thanks!
Martin
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