Re: OOoLilyPond 0.3 released

[Nicholas Bailey]

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That's right, but it's really important to store temp files in /tmp:  
it's not so bad on my lab machines because they are all Linux and we  
run our own file server, but if you walk downstairs to the  
undergraduate clusters that run Windows/Novell, you can wait up to  
five minutes after turning the machine on before the desktop appears  
if you do it on the hour in term time when lab teaching's on, and  
this is because of network load.

The University magnanimously grants each student just a few MB of  
quota in /home (or H: I think they call it) -- many of them resort to  
doing all their work from USB flash keys. This is the sort of  
nonsense one has to put up with. I ask the first year students to  
work out how much they are worth by looking up the price of hard disk  
drives. The admin hate me :)

Anything to make sure the temporary files stay on the local machine!

Nick/.

On 13 Oct 2006, at 10:04 am, Graham King wrote:

> If the files are _required_ to remain until the next time the user  
> runs
> OOoLilypond, /tmp might not be the best place.  On some unices, / 
> tmp is
> a swap-based filesystem that gets trashed at reboot; on others
> (including various Linux distros), there's a cron job that removes
> anything that has not been accessed for some period of time.
>
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:15 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Samuel Hartmann wrote:
> > > Hi Mats,
> > >
> > > Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > > > Samuel Hartmann wrote:
> > > > >     * on Linux, ~/.ooolilypond-tmp is used for temporary files
> > > >
> > > > Why not use a directory in /tmp/ for temporary files? I'm probably
> > > > not the
> > > > only one who has $HOME on a network file system with limited quota.
> > > > Of course, I could add a soft link from .ooolilypond-tmp to /tmp/.
> > >
> > > Using /tmp can cause problems when several users use OOoLilyPond on
> > > the same machine. The temporary files are the LilyPond input  
> > > file, the
> > > LilyPond output, the eps or png file. These file stay in the  
> > > temporary
> > > directory until the next time you run OOoLilyPond. Another user
> > > running OOoLilyPond will have problem deleting or overwriting these
> > > files.
> > Such problems are easily handled by creating separate subdirectories
> > below /tmp/,
> > for example based on the user name or using tmpfile().
> >
> >    /Mats
>
>
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