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List:       darcs-users
Subject:    Re: [darcs-users] `darcs record` leaves emacs backup files in top
From:       Ketil Malde <ketil.malde () bccs ! uib ! no>
Date:       2005-04-07 17:19:36
Message-ID: 87r7hmsdw7.fsf () sefirot ! ii ! uib ! no
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Thomas Zander <zander@planescape.com> writes:

>>>>  3. save the program's text image on the swap device so it will load
>>>>     more quickly when run (called the "sticky bit").  

Has this really been true since 1980 or so?

>>>>     For directories
>>>>     on some systems, prevent users from removing or renaming a file in
>>>>     a directory unless they own the file or the directory; this is
>>>>     called the "restricted deletion flag" for the directory.

>>> Which is normal for /tmp on all unix I know (solaris/linux-debian)

>> Ah, I wasn't aware of that.  So it should be safe then to create temp files
>> in /tmp to be edited with $EDITOR then?

> Yes;  just about all programs I know do that.  Do an ls /tmp while you
> are typing a new email in mutt, for example.

I'm probably making a fool of myself here, but you guys *do* know about
mkstemp(3) and tmpfile(3) etc., right?

-kzm
-- 
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