[PATCH:shmfd 2/2] Use /var/tmp instead of /run/shm on non-linux OS'es

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Nov 8 10:36:19 PST 2013


On 11/ 8/13 06:42 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> We want to make sure we don't write files to disk. /tmp on some systems is
> backed by a disk, not tmpfs.

That was unclear from the sample code - all I saw was a directory that doesn't
exist on my platform, with no hints how to pick the right one.   (On my 
platform, /tmp is tmpfs, /var/tmp is disk, so I clearly picked wrong if that
was the goal.)

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