On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Machines get rebooted because of (temporary) power
> > outage (happens quite often) or because they crash (happens quite
> > often too). That's the real world.
[...]
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:01:20PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > This isn't a problem, except that you need to decide what to do when
> > > it happens. In such a case your mkdir will fail, and you will have to
> > > resort to s
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > I think you missed my point. How does Mutt KNOW /tmp is OK? What if
> > it is not on your system?
>
> /tmp is standard and assumed to be usable (see POSIX, Chapter 10).
> A system without /tmp is broken.
Which in no way preven
On 2019-06-28 12:02:30 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-06-26 14:36:01 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > On 2019-06-25 14:26:16 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:08:06AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-06-26 14:36:01 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2019-06-25 14:26:16 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > > In some cases it might get cleaned up, but you ca
On 2019-06-26 14:36:01 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-06-25 14:26:16 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > In some cases it might get cleaned up, but you can just have your
> > > .profile (or whatever) recreate it when you log in
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-06-25 14:26:16 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:11:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2019-06-24 17:18:27 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > > Mutt honors $TMPDIR. You should set it. You shou
On 2019-06-25 14:26:16 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:11:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-06-24 17:18:27 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > Mutt honors $TMPDIR. You should set it. You should probably not use
> > > /tmp, especially on a multi-user system, especi
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:11:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-06-24 17:18:27 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > Mutt honors $TMPDIR. You should set it. You should probably not use
> > /tmp, especially on a multi-user system, especially if you care about
> > security (privacy to be more pr
On 2019-06-24 17:18:27 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Mutt honors $TMPDIR. You should set it. You should probably not use
> /tmp, especially on a multi-user system, especially if you care about
> security (privacy to be more precise, but that's part of security).
> You should probably also not put i
Derek Martin wrote in <20190624233654.gb13...@bladeshadow.org>:
|On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:45:02AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Hmm, while i totally support the $TMPDIR environment variable, and
|> personally dislike it a lot if i set it and someone simply does
|> not adhere to it, and if
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:45:02AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hmm, while i totally support the $TMPDIR environment variable, and
> personally dislike it a lot if i set it and someone simply does
> not adhere to it, and if its only for testing purposes.., it shall
> be remarked that OpenBSD "r
Derek Martin wrote in <20190624221827.ga13...@bladeshadow.org>:
|On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:36:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
|> On 2019-06-23 14:44:36 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
|>> Were it a simple filename it would all be easy. Maybe a chdir(tmpdir)
|>> before running the shell comman
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:36:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-06-23 14:44:36 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > Were it a simple filename it would all be easy. Maybe a chdir(tmpdir)
> > before running the shell command with a simple filename?
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a good ide
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