Hi Ulli,
On Dec 12 13:00, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistant.
> On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its
> content is lost.
> But on cygwin /var/run is stored on disk.
>
> I cannot use an environment variable, because different
On Thu 2019-12-12 (17:06), L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2019/12/12 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
> > Ah! I think what you want is a tmpfs or ramfs.
> > Not sure if cygwin supports that ...
> >
>
> Easiest thing might be to use /dev/shm. I used it during
> development to store intermediate data
On 2019/12/12 22:26, Brian Inglis wrote:
I've been using /run, with /var/run as a symlink to that, created in a permanent
postinstall script /etc/postinstall/zp_mk_run_var_links.dash (with some others),
for some time. It's currently using ~28KB.
Is it feasible to mount /run on say /dev/shm/run
On 2019-12-12 18:06, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2019/12/12 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> Ah! I think what you want is a tmpfs or ramfs.
>> Not sure if cygwin supports that ...
>>
>
> Easiest thing might be to use /dev/shm. I used it during
> development to store intermediate data that was late
On 2019/12/12 13:40, Eliot Moss wrote:
Ah! I think what you want is a tmpfs or ramfs.
Not sure if cygwin supports that ...
Easiest thing might be to use /dev/shm. I used it during
development to store intermediate data that was later to be
transfered via a fifo...
Basically check fo
Ah! I think what you want is a tmpfs or ramfs.
Not sure if cygwin supports that ...
Cheers - Eliot
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On Thu 2019-12-12 (14:18), Eliot Moss wrote:
> > I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistant.
> > On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its
> > content is lost.
> > But on cygwin /var/run is stored on disk.
> >
> I would think of temp directories, such as /tmp.
On 12/12/2019 7:00 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistant.
On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its
content is lost.
But on cygwin /var/run is stored on disk.
I cannot use an environment variable, because different processes nee
I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistant.
On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its
content is lost.
But on cygwin /var/run is stored on disk.
I cannot use an environment variable, because different processes need to
read/write the data.
/proc is non-persist
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