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.
> 
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