On 11/18/21 5:20 AM, linux guy wrote:
Sorry, I've been using Redhat/Fedora for 20 years. Never once lost data like this. This is bad programming, period !
I agree. It would be a strange pattern to point a tool to a dir and expect it to use it and then remove everything (including previously existing stuff), because what is a user then expected to do? 1) create a new dir 2) run the tool, which finally deletes the files but leaves the dir 3) remove the dir This appears more convoluted than: 1) point a tool to a dir with enough space available, the tool then creates its own temp dir, does its stuff and removes the temp dir Indeed, this is exactly what every tool does with $TMPDIR. (but I have to say I have once seen a badly written software running by default with "its dir" set to $TMPDIR and willingfully deleting any "too old file" there without distinction between its stuff and other files: as a results it removed completely the /tmp/.X11-unix/ dir causing bizarre problems with programs not starting anymore. it was commercial software.) Regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
