[13293] in bugtraq
Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Kankovsky)
Fri Jan 7 17:32:30 2000
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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:32:48 +0100
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From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@ARGO.TROJA.MFF.CUNI.CZ>
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> when you're dealing with files in /tmp that are supposed to be re-opened
> (rather than opened once and then discarded) there's an established
> way to do it which goes like this:
The problem lies in the premises: these files should not be stored in
/tmp. If you insist on putting them under /tmp for whatever reason, you
should use an intermediate diractory:
mkdir /tmp/mydir
cd /tmp/mydir || exit 1
check whether . is ok
play with files here
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
