Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > - A modification to "/etc/profile" (and the matching csh file) to set TMPDIR
> > to "/tmp/${LOGNAME}" if TMPDIR was not set yet.
>
> Note that this will move the default location used for files
> created with tempnam() etal. from the on-disk /var/tmp to the
> tmpfs /tmp. Does anything depend on being able to access
> such files across reboots (like editor autosave/recovery) ?
AFAIK no since APIs like |tmpfile()| and |tmpnam()| are for temporary
data only and they should not be used for permanent storage (e.g. AFAIK
it is a bug when applications would use these APIs for storing permanent
data).
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Bye,
Roland
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