Fokke, thankyou very much for the response.

On 10 August 2017 at 10:07, Fokke Dijkstra <f.dijks...@rug.nl> wrote:

> We use the spank-private-tmp plugin developed at HPC2N in Sweden:
> https://github.com/hpc2n/spank-private-tmp
>
> See also: https://slurm.schedmd.com/SUG14/private_tmp.pdf
> for a presentation about the plugin.
>
>
> 2017-08-10 9:31 GMT+02:00 John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com>:
>
>> I am sure someone discussed this topic on this list a few months ago...
>> if it rings any bells please let me know.
>> I am not discussing setting the TMPDIR environment variable and crateing
>> a new TMPDIR directory on a per job basis - though thankyou for the help I
>> did get when discussing this.
>>
>> Rather I would like to set up a new namespace when a job runs such that
>> /tmp is unique to every job.  /tmp can of course be a directly uniquely
>> created for that job and deleted afterwards.
>> This is to cope with any software which writes to  /tmp rather than using
>> the TMPDIR variable.
>> If anyone does this let me know what your techniques are please.
>>
>>
>
>
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