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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:53 MST, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> > /var/tmp is no good as it sounds like you'll be littering up that
> > directory.
> 
> No, that's not the case. The problem is that if you have concurrent
> installworlds, then the current scheme is not guaranteed to create
> unique directories across hosts. And since /usr/obj is very likely to be
> shared among those hosts, it is therefore not the right place to
> temporarily save binaries.

Your comments don't counter David's; you're both saying where these
files _shouldn't_ go.

Okay, so they _shouldn't_ go in /usr/obj, nor in /var/tmp, nor in
/tmp...

Any bright ideas? :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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