Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:56:11 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net biqrteYmarioY1eE2FWQBQqF4IoOVlf22r0Ay6X0zrCb0NrRc1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BJn7dNm82QCi2/blAuOG6u/z24s= sha256:AhdvcBeGWFF/8CxHMnKcrVdTW4C1j6nUmhSIBhSdMWk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1729 On 2024-07-06 07:22, Jack Strangio wrote: > Lew Pitcher writes: >> >> The /tmp directory must be made available for programs that require >> temporary files. >> >> Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are >> preserved between invocations of the program. > > Exactly. **temporary** files are just that: temporary. > > You don't expect them to be there after a reboot, or the next time your > program runs, or whatever. Not fully correct :-) The interpretation of the "rules" is that the files can be deleted, or maybe not. You can not expect assurance that they will be there, but neither there is assurance that they will be deleted. The application can not be sure that the file will be there on next boot. But it may be. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.