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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-09-24 19:28:01 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-09-24 19:28:01 +0100
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Document accurately how supermin appliance uses /tmp as a cache.
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@@ -1684,9 +1684,9 @@ has the same effect as calling C<guestfs_set_trace (g, 1)>.
Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp>.
-If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then each
-handle will require rather a large amount of space in this directory
-for short periods of time (~ 80 MB). You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
+If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then the
+real appliance is cached in this directory, shared between all
+handles belonging to the same EUID. You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
configure another directory to use in case C</tmp> is not large
enough.