[ENBD] can't write to nb device - nbd_get_req blocking req

Peter T. Breuer enbd@lists.community.tummy.com
Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:25:32 +0200 (MET DST)


"A month of sundays ago Robin Green wrote:"
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > "A month of sundays ago Robin Green wrote:"
> > > It is a pain not knowing which stuff I have to delete in /tmp and which
> > > stuff I must not delete to avoid breaking some running application
> > > (e.g. KDE).
> > 
> > /tmp can be cleared anytime - that's what its name indicates.
> 
> No, it can't. If something is trying to open files in a subdirectory of
> /tmp which no longer exists - things could break.

The "something" must be prepared to tolerate it. /tmp can be cleared
anytime. And is.

> >  Kde will
> > be storing stuff in the users ~/tmp dir.
> 
> Not here (Redhat). ~/tmp doesn't exist. KDE puts whole directories in
> /tmp, like /tmp/kde-USERNAME

Will die - more examples of redhat engineering incompetence :-(. Will
die as soon as you go for more than three days without touching the
console, while logged in. More problems with that also occur to me!

Peter