Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:30 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <3975D27E.F986EAD9@cup.hp.com> References: <3498.964021237@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > /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. > > Your comments don't counter David's; you're both saying where these > files _shouldn't_ go. I counter David in the very first sentence. He says that it sounds like I'm littering. I say that that's not the case. > Okay, so they _shouldn't_ go in /usr/obj, nor in /var/tmp, nor in > /tmp... > > Any bright ideas? :-) Use /tmp and have people override it my setting TMPDIR? Seems like a very common thing to do... -- 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
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