On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Jay Oliveri wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:03 am, Roger Hayter wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > writes > > > > >People don't consider space permenantly occupied by Freenet the same way > > >that they might consider space needed by Freenet to do things that they > > >have asked it to do (like downloading a splitfile). They should be able > > >to indicate their allocations for permenant datastore and temporary > > >space separately. > > > > The obvious thing to do would be to make tempDir=/tmp (or > > c:\windows\temp) the default. But then, only a few weeks ago people were > > complaining (especially people who provide a mainport service to a > > network or to the Internet - others presumably haven't looked where > > their browser stores temporary files) about Freenet plaintext files > > being left around in temporary locations - as is always likely when > > things crash. I would suggest the above default, but warn those > > providing a fproxy service to other individuals that they can put > > temporary files in the datastore if they want them to be under better > > supervision. > > Under Windows, the directory specified by the TEMP environment variable is > within the users own 'Documents and settings" directory, which means any > temp files should be private to the user in question.
Well, on NT-based Windows anyway. > > On unix, use a directory under the users HOME directory ($HOME/tmp). Hmm. > > -- > Jay Oliveri "In the land of the blind, > GnuPG ID: 0x5AA5DD54 the one-eyed man is king." > FCPTools Maintainer > www.sf.net/users/joliveri > -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at ICTHUS.
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