Anyone has time for a unittesting issue?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 1 11:24:07 PDT 2016


On 10/01/2016 01:48 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 October 2016 at 17:45:30 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Saturday, 1 October 2016 at 17:35:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I think /tmp/ is mounted per user so we should be good. Anyhow...
>>> care to send a PR upstream? -- Andrei
>>
>> You can't make any assumptions about how /tmp/ is mounted, it is
>> completely up to distro/administrator.
>
> As for original post - it is not an issue. The whole /tmp/ content can
> be wiped between sessions (it is not uncommon to mount it into RAM) -
> there should never be need to only remove dmd related parts. The whole
> point of /tmp/ is to be a random junkyard.

Granted, no contest. Seems to me we could be a better denizen of said 
junkyard. What I noticed other apps do is create one directory in /tmp 
and then place their junk in there. -- Andrei



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