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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:07:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A2815D3.2040108@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a98b6467-c692-86ab-4759-d40cb04b21b4@gmail.com>

On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> - contents of /tmp are not expected to survive the invocation of the
> program that created them
> - contents of /var/tmp are not expected to survive a reboot

That sounds completely wrong, actually.

The contents of /var/tmp are expected to survive a system crash, as that
is where vi, emacs, libreoffice et al are expected to store their
recovery logs.

Not much point putting the logs somewhere where they will be deleted by
the very occurrence they are intended to protect against ...

And yes, the rules for /tmp are "don't expect to find anything you put
there will be there a few minutes later ..." :-)

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22  6:52 [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it? Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22  7:21 ` R0b0t1
2017-11-22  7:26 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2017-11-22  8:23   ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-22  8:34   ` David Haller
2017-11-22 10:07     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 11:26       ` David Haller
2017-11-23 22:47         ` Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 13:12   ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22 13:23     ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22 14:11     ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2017-11-22 14:34       ` Wols Lists
2017-11-22 16:27         ` J. Roeleveld
2017-12-05  4:11           ` Taiidan
2017-12-05  4:17             ` R0b0t1
2017-12-05 10:09             ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 10:46               ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 11:13                 ` Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-05 11:39                   ` Mick
2017-12-05 13:07                 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 13:57                   ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 14:13                     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 21:56               ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-06 13:29                 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-06 15:34                   ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-06 16:07                     ` Wols Lists [this message]
2017-12-06 23:51                       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-06 16:12                     ` [gentoo-user] " Wols Lists
2017-12-06 17:24                     ` Kai Peter
2017-11-22  7:48 ` David Haller
2017-11-22  8:32   ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22  8:57     ` David Haller
2017-11-22 12:16       ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-22 16:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-28 10:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-01 10:39   ` J. Roeleveld

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