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From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
Cc: 75306@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#75306: 31.0.50; Make `small-temporary-file-directory` variable obsolete
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:26:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o70makgj.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttaezyyp.fsf@> ("Björn Bidar"'s message of "Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:54:06 +0200")

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.

Best regards, Michael.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-04 11:26 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
     [not found]   ` <87ttaezyyp.fsf@>
2025-01-04 11:26     ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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
     [not found]       ` <6779b38c.050a0220.be2ea.a6e0SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2025-01-05  5:30         ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found]       ` <8734hyw7g4.fsf@>
2025-01-05  8:18         ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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