[GTALUG] suggestion: naming temp files

Scott Allen mlxxxp at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 07:47:50 EDT 2018


On 17 April 2018 at 11:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> Putting them in /tmp means that they will automatically be discarded
> on reboot -- kind of handy.  But it means that they are public: they
> are in a space shared with all other users (if you have other users).

What's wrong with putting them in /tmp but making them read/write only
by your user account? Or better yet, also put them in a subdirectory
that only you have access privileges to.

-- 
Scott


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