From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 19 9: 8:45 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1AE37BF1D; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5026AE82; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id JAA05312; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3975D27E.F986EAD9@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:30 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 References: <3498.964021237@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn 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. I counter David in the very first sentence. He says that it sounds like I'm littering. I say that that's not the case. > Okay, so they _shouldn't_ go in /usr/obj, nor in /var/tmp, nor in > /tmp... > > Any bright ideas? :-) Use /tmp and have people override it my setting TMPDIR? Seems like a very common thing to do... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message