From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs in ~/.cache Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:22:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87a5ui9928.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87leefcf1m.fsf@yandex.com> <87y1ifxd5c.fsf@gmx.de> <87r0nyd7cq.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qfvrsgg.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4423"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:EOIs+fJ/kpxw+Arlv2iyJ2zBL50= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 23 20:56:15 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qYt1a-0000vA-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:56:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYt1K-0006aP-F8; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYWxH-0005W9-AZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qYWxF-0001qU-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qYWxB-0000Qx-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:22:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:55:56 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144941 Archived-At: Michael Albinus wrote: >>> Tramp 2.7 (of Emacs 30) uses ~/.cache/emacs as temporary >>> directory, if possible. The reason are >>> security considerations. >> >> I have a Tramp socket file there on Debian, it is the >> only file. >> >> It gets more secure that way? > > ~/.cache has 0700 file permissions. Other users have > no access. > >> What happens if you remove that directory, will it still >> work the next time, just a similar file has to be created >> first before use? > > If you remove it while Emacs is running you're lost. > Don't do that! > > When Tramp is loaded, and ~/.cache exists, ~/.cache/emacs > will be (re-)created if it doesn't exist. Otherwise, /tmp > will be used (or whatever value of > temporary-file-directory). > > See the initialization of > tramp-compat-temporary-file-directory in tramp-compat.el. Thank you, this was a pleasant explanation. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal