From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 19 8:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED35D37BEF5; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAD737D6; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id IAA03843; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3975C809.D690FC87@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:53 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 References: <33457.963991514@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <39755F9B.30593B39@cup.hp.com> <20000719014747.A25515@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:58:19AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > First, could you put the files somewhere in the obj tree so that they > > > aren't lost in the case of a reboot on a machine which mounts /tmp in > > > volatile storage? > > > > I prefer to use /var/tmp in that case. There's a problem with multiple > > concurrent installworlds if you save the binaries in the shared object > > tree. > > /var/tmp is no good as it sounds like you'll be littering up that > directory. No, that's not the case. The problem is that if you have concurrent installworlds, then the current scheme is not guaranteed to create unique directories across hosts. And since /usr/obj is very likely to be shared among those hosts, it is therefore not the right place to temporarily save binaries. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message