On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:15:45PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
Yeah, that's better than just blindly using ~/tmp/. But why have
the
extra complexity? Why not always do mktemp and the bind+namespace
magic? This does have some advantage -- all users' tmp dirs are created
the way the admin intended when he set the system up, and they're easy
to find if he needs to look for them, for whatever reason.
Well, at this point, the bind+namespace magic is more complex. But it seems
sufficiently promising that it's probably worth waiting until it's solid
before implementing anything.
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