From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JH4SH-00058a-Pe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29034E074D; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F265AE074D for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD4F6588A for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.046 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.046 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.553, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MTWPn3laOfYc for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEFB65940 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JH4Ry-0005w1-N0 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:02 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:02 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479156FF.5030508@xs4all.nl> <479350EE.9000403@gentoo.org> <20080121023818.GC6544@comet> <200801210005.29587.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5222eb52-0818-4fef-85e6-0046341f7163 X-Archives-Hash: cbbcd534c11e742f333de073b83449b1 Mike Frysinger posted 200801210005.29587.vapier@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:05:29 -0500: > another point: i dont think ive ever met anyone who even knew what the > Windows temp directory was or even how to find it. no one relies on > that directory to manage their files. Well, you've (virtually, anyway) met one now. Back when I ran on MS, I always made it a point of setting both TMP and=20 TEMP to a dedicated temp partition, a practice that saved my *** at least= =20 once, during the IE4 betas when MS pulled a trick that had people ending=20 up with IE's cache index crosslinked with multiple other files, costing=20 folks various documents and/or drivers, etc (there were reports of both)=20 in the process. Since I'd decided IE's cache was temp data and had it on= =20 my temp partition (along with TEMP/TMP), the only data it could corrupt=20 was other temp files. =3D8^) Of course, the other advantage of a separate temp partition was that in=20 the event of a crash, the only files generally open were temp files,=20 thus, the only partition that generally had to be scandisked was the=20 relatively small and quickly scanned temp partition. =3D8^) So such people are out there... --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list