On 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... > its utilities, svnlook needs to create two temporary files to be used > by an external 'diff' process. Given only handles, we have no paths But the svnlook lives longer than the diff process ? Or do you -also- postulate something like a 'crontab' which deletes cruft in case of accidents ? > to provide to that 'diff' process. CVS gets around this by using an .... > Now, most of Subversion's operations require a working copy, so we > make our tempfiles in the .svn/tmp/ directory in those cases. But we ... > across the network, with no working copy (and therefore no guaranteed > user-writable place to put tempfiles). Aye - well in that case I would personally would really want to have this done on application level and under operator control - as the associated environment (especially if you have thousands of accounts/connections to worry about) will often require extensive fitting to the maintenance model. It's a shame Unix, like windows, has no global registry :-) Dw
