Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-23 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Saturday 22 September 2001 01:59 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". so it should be like windows where it just grows all the time right?? > If > you wan

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Colin Watson (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:04:35PM -0500): > So file a bug (which I imagine will be closed straight away) instead of > pointlessly bitching like a muppet on -user. I can't imagine what you > think this achieves. DON'T YOU DARE mentioning the muppets in any form of negative co

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in | /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If /tmp is only for work (such as compiling the latest vim release) on a system whe

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Colin Watson wrote: > > And if I find the fuckbag who wrote the script that delted my work, > > I'm going to give him a piece of my mind. > > So file a bug (which I imagine will be closed straight away) instead of > pointlessly bitching like a muppet on -user. I can't imagine what you > think thi

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. Don't put your work in /tmp then. > /tmp on Linux is not some stupid communist Ho ho ho *plonk* The news is enough without random political noise

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > That's all well and good, but there's no reason whatever to clear out /tmp > if the machine shutdown unexpectedly. If you ABSOLUTELY INSIST on > clearing /tmp, put it in the shutdown scripts not the bootup scripts. > > It's a completely stupid and useless policy that doe

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 11:01]: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux > is not some stu

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Adam Bower wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot"

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Adam Bower
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux > is not some stupid commu

Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux is not some stupid communist shit-licking in-memory filesystem like it is on S