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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KFM temp files
From:       Jens Benecke <jens () pinguin ! conetix ! de>
Date:       2000-03-25 15:20:04
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:07:13PM -0800, zaven wrote:
 
>  I am wondering if there is a way to prevent KFM from producing quite so
>  many temporary files in /tmp. This system has many users (over 20,000)

oh. =)

>  and there tends to be several thousand kfm_* and kfm-cache-* files in
>  /tmp at any given time. Most of these files are zero-byte, and I know a
>  cron job can easily be set up to remove them, so my question is: Are so
>  many temporary/cache files really needed or is this a detail that has
>  been overlooked in the development process? I tend to produce 3-4
>  kfm-cache and kfm_* files for every 4 hours of work. Seems like a lot.

You can probably patch the source so that it creates /tmp/$UID/ or
something. Or you can use the "tmpjail" library that is used via LD_PRELOAD
and re-routes all calls to /tmp (open, read, write, etc) to $HOME/tmp.
(which is nonsense if $HOME is NFS mounted, but can be configured).

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