Re: [sage-devel] Re: Moving SAGE_TMP to the system location

2022-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 09:18 -0800, Volker Braun wrote: > Are we talking about /tmp or /var/tmp? Short answer: /tmp. Long answer: The python tempfile functions use a directory that, "is chosen from a platform-dependent list, but the user of the  application can control the directory locatio

[sage-devel] Re: Moving SAGE_TMP to the system location

2022-02-13 Thread Volker Braun
Are we talking about /tmp or /var/tmp? https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES/ says: * /tmp/ should be used for smaller, size-bounded files only; /var/tmp/ should be used for everything else. * Data that shall survive a boot cycle shouldn’t be placed in /tmp/. While its often the case that /v