Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:31:27 +0100 (BST)


> But I don't like this "fix". Thou shalt not work in /lib. My root directory is
> small and deliberately so. /tmp is the right place to do this work. Just

Unfortunately /tmp/ isnt usable in a vendor portable manner. I can submit
Linus an elegant clean patch that uses /tmp and works on RH 5.0+/current SuSE
and Debian and probably crashes and burns on Slackware. Thats far worse

> And what happens on make clean or abort? Do we delete all the .o files in the
> workspace? :-)

The workspace files in question are 2 or 3 text files under 4K long.

Alan

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