Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:09:26 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sort(1) tempfile patch Message-ID: <p04330115b627dae6a529@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20001102182202.A26341@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <XFMail.20001102145935.mheffner@vt.edu> <p04330112b6279baac90a@[128.113.24.47]> <20001102182202.A26341@citusc17.usc.edu>
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At 6:22 PM -0800 11/2/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Why's that? Your method has one fewer inode in /tmp, but many more files in /tmp directory. (directly in /tmp, as opposed to "some subdirectory of /tmp"). If sort is going to create multiple temp files, then your strategy puts all of those files in /tmp. I'd rather have one file in /tmp, and then lots of sort-related files in /tmp/sort.random for each user doing a sort. On a multi-user system (one which actually has multiple active users), one person doing a sort can cause a lot of "pollution" of /tmp, along with constant locking as those temporary files are created and destroyed. Also, I like the idea of having to be paranoid only for the creation of one directory, instead of having to be paranoid for every file created. -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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