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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-01-19 21:47:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2011-01-19 21:47:23 +0000 |
| commit | 78f1405de05ef1f2efebafd8245658d1707e59ef (patch) | |
| tree | 062f322970f73e19bfdfc65b84d7887a781e92f2 /src/guestfs-internal.h | |
| parent | 316ad8311a41869cf5f253225137dd03d1211ce7 (diff) | |
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Use /var/tmp for the cached appliance (for FHS compliance).
The FHS advises large files not to be stored in the root
filesystem[1], and that /var/tmp is persistent across reboots[2]
(whereas /tmp is possibly not[3]).
Therefore we should store the large cached supermin appliance in
/var/tmp instead of /tmp. /tmp is still used for all other temporary
files and directories.
In either case you can override this by setting $TMPDIR.
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM
[2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE
[3] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES
Diffstat (limited to 'src/guestfs-internal.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/guestfs-internal.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/guestfs-internal.h b/src/guestfs-internal.h index 08b459bc..194c8928 100644 --- a/src/guestfs-internal.h +++ b/src/guestfs-internal.h @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ extern char *guestfs_safe_strndup (guestfs_h *g, const char *str, size_t n); extern void *guestfs_safe_memdup (guestfs_h *g, void *ptr, size_t size); extern char *guestfs_safe_asprintf (guestfs_h *g, const char *fs, ...) __attribute__((format (printf,2,3))); +extern const char *guestfs___persistent_tmpdir (void); extern void guestfs___print_timestamped_argv (guestfs_h *g, const char *argv[]); extern void guestfs___print_timestamped_message (guestfs_h *g, const char *fs, ...); extern void guestfs___free_inspect_info (guestfs_h *g); |