On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:34:03 +0000, Aneurin Price <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > I think this discussion needs a sanity check. > > Please remember, the topic of conversation is whether an application > can reasonably make the assumption that the system defined tmp > directory is a suitable place to store temporary data.
Absolutely, although at the other extreme we seem to have people demanding that they should be able to make very specific assumptions about what form that storage will take for all future time and how much of their data they should be able to put on it, without needing to do tiresome things like check first, or even checking whether it worked afterwards. Of course we cannot please _all_ our users with our defaults, but if this niche software is really rendered useless by having /tmp on tmpfs then surely it should check for that case, and then if necessary, suggest one of the several possible solutions to the user. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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