From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804141122.52121.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4802D14A.5060505@wrkhors.com>
On Monday 14 April 2008, Steven Lembark wrote:
> > I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great:
> >
> > tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp
>
> Catch: You loose it all on reboot.
Doesn't matter. The standard definition for /tmp (per FHS) is "contains
files that are not expected to persists across different invocations of
a program". Never mind reboots, if you just exit and restart vi, it
cannot expect the temp file to still be there.
vi is a sane program and will in all likelihood respect this
almost-universal standard. If anyone wants different behaviour (can't
think why...) then configure vi to use a different directory as a
scratch pad
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Alan McKinnon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-14 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 16:38 [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp Florian Philipp
2008-04-13 17:07 ` Steven Lembark
2008-04-13 19:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-13 20:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-04-13 22:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-04-14 3:36 ` Steven Lembark
2008-04-14 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-14 7:58 ` Philip Webb
2008-04-15 0:48 ` forgottenwizard
2008-04-15 5:16 ` Philip Webb
2008-04-15 16:43 ` forgottenwizard
2008-04-14 8:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-04-14 9:22 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-04-14 21:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
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