On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:06:34PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
>On 09/09/2010 2:16 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>So, for example, if the user logs in interactively while a cron job (or
>>another service) is running, /tmp may be mapped differently than if no
>>cron job is running, because TMP may be de
On 09/09/2010 2:16 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> So, for example, if the user logs in interactively while a cron job (or
> another service)
> is running, /tmp may be mapped differently than if no cron job is running,
> because
> TMP may be defined differently in the service environment.
> That i
On 09/09/2010 21:53, Earl Chew wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> but I think we
>>> should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible;
>> I don't understand why. How many times per second does /etc/fstab get
>> parsed?
>
> I interpreted cgf's comment as not wishing
- Original Message -
From: "Dave Korn"
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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 16:03
| On 08/09/2010 23:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
| > Corinna may disagree,
|
| Needless to say, I'm not Corinna!
|
| > but I think we
| > should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible;
On 09/09/2010 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> but I think we
>> should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible;
>
> I don't understand why. How many times per second does /etc/fstab get
> parsed?
I interpreted cgf's comment as not wishing to add to the amount of coupling
with /etc/fs
On 08/09/2010 23:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Corinna may disagree,
Needless to say, I'm not Corinna!
> but I think we
> should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible;
I don't understand why. How many times per second does /etc/fstab get parsed?
cheers,
DaveK
On 09/09/2010 12:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Apart from changing /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER by some installer
> script, why not just add a one-liner profile script along the lines of
>
> /etc/profile.d/tmp-mnt.sh:
>
>mount -f `cygpath -m "${TEMP}"` /tmp
That's a pretty good idea.
On Sep 8 15:59, Earl Chew wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch but I don't think this is generally useful. If you
> > need to mount /tmp somewhere else then it should be fairly trivial to
> > automatically update /etc/fstab. Corinna may disagree, but
On 08/09/2010 3:41 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Thanks for the patch but I don't think this is generally useful. If you
> need to mount /tmp somewhere else then it should be fairly trivial to
> automatically update /etc/fstab. Corinna may disagree, but I think we
> should keep the parsing of /
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:27:14PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
>We have an installation that we deploy to a bunch of workstations. We prefer
>if the installation uses the temporary file directory that Windows has already
>allocated for the user.
>
>The entry for /tmp in /etc/fstab, or the directory /tm
We have an installation that we deploy to a bunch of workstations. We prefer
if the installation uses the temporary file directory that Windows has already
allocated for the user.
The entry for /tmp in /etc/fstab, or the directory /tmp, is preferred.
If neither is found, the patch mounts /tmp at t
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