On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: > > Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is > > outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this > > probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O > > $fn, then wget will probably call its outupt $fn.1, since $fn exists > > (as a requirement for this to be done safely way, it must be created > > before the name is outputted). > > I decided to put the files in /root/ (like it was in the quake2 > package). The main reason for this is that the downloads are > considerable and I can assume that users don't want to discard them as > easily as a temp file (2x around 40 MB). > > AFAIK, this is also the strategy of realplayeri (when I still used > it). Maybe there is a better location for such files. Indeed /root/ feels like a bad place. I would suggest /tmp/ or something in /var/. Maybe /var/cache/, because "information" isn't "lost" if it gets deleted?
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