Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: Diffs for replacing mktemp() usage

[Earl Hood]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Sean Kamath wrote:

> Frankly, people who run tmp cleaners that are that braindead probably
> deserve what they get.

Are we to worry about braindead temp cleaners?  I.e. I'm
sure other apps would have problems with braindead
cleaners, so should we waste resources dealing with
a problem that is not worth addressing?

> Regardless, moving them to a configurable tmp
> location is not a bad idea -- but I don't want to hit my NFS mounted
> home dir every time I make a tmp file.  So I'd make /var/tmp/<user> or
> /tmp/<user> and point to that.

I'm unsure if real-time performance is super critical
with nmh.  If going with /var/tmp/<user>, you still
do not completely avoid braindead cleaners since you are
still working under the system tmp directory.

--ewh