From: "Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 75306@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#75306: 31.0.50; Make `small-temporary-file-directory` variable obsolete
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:16:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13633.4549797297$1736029067@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o70makgj.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:26:36 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
>
> Hi Björn,
>
>>> And in the Tramp case, you break an existing interface. Users have been
>>> instructed to change the value of small-temporary-file-directory when
>>> needed. See (info "(tramp) Frequently Asked Questions"), which documents
>>> a user problem reported on the <tramp-devel@gnu.org> ML.
>>
>> If the intend of the variable is the same as listed in the Tramp FAQ why
>> not set it by default to /run/user/<uid>?
>>
>> For such use cases using /run/user/<uid> is much better as it more
>> secure and on a ramdisk.
>
> Because it isn't portable. The Tramp manual gives just an example.
Portable across Unixes or Linux? For Linux /run/user is portable.
/var/run, which is symlinked to /run exists in BSD but not
/var/run/user.
However XDG_CACHE_HOME is already used in Tramp so using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
should be a natural followup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-04 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-03 3:23 bug#75306: 31.0.50; Make `small-temporary-file-directory` variable obsolete Stefan Kangas
2025-01-03 5:56 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2025-01-03 8:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2025-01-03 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-03 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-03 9:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2025-01-03 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-04 9:54 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2025-01-04 9:54 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2025-01-04 11:26 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2025-01-04 22:16 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2025-01-04 22:16 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
[not found] ` <6779b38c.050a0220.be2ea.a6e0SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2025-01-05 5:30 ` Stefan Kangas
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2025-01-05 8:18 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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