Configuration Document

Ivan R. Judson judson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 1 17:13:19 CST 2003


I was thinking services, service manager, node service, etc. Things running
in a non-user mode might have reason to use a temp dir and that would be the
system one.

Sounds like the same thing you are saying below.  I have no problem with the
choice of what to do first.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:00 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; 'Eric Olson'
> Cc: 'AG Dev'
> Subject: RE: Configuration Document
> 
> 
> I see; is there a reason we can't use the user temp dir for 
> everything? (it 
> makes sense for the things that I've poked at that use a temp dir). 
> Wondering if there are things that make more sense to be in 
> the system temp 
> dir. (I like the default of using user temp for everything for a user 
> client; I guess a service might need something different)
> 
> --bob
> 
> At 04:55 PM 4/1/2003 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> >I use the user temp dir to save copys of docs that we want 
> the client 
> >to open automatically; we might not want those in a global 
> location to 
> >be left for anyone to peruse.
> >
> >--Ivan
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:48 PM
> > > To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; 'Eric Olson'
> > > Cc: 'AG Dev'
> > > Subject: RE: Configuration Document
> > >
> > >
> > > What is the practical difference between them?
> > >
> > > At 04:38 PM 4/1/2003 -0600, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > >
> > > >Is it possible to add two calls:
> > > >
> > > >GetSystemTempDir() and GetUserTempDir()?
> > > >
> > > >These are used by various pieces that need to deal with
> > > temporary data.
> > > >
> > > >On linux they should probably both return /tmp, but on windows 
> > > >there are two
> > > >temps:
> > > >
> > > >Windows\tmp and Documents and settings\user\temp
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >--Ivan
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Eric Olson [mailto:eolson at mcs.anl.gov]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:04 PM
> > > > > To: Ivan R. Judson
> > > > > Cc: 'AG Dev'
> > > > > Subject: Re: Configuration Document
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Added a small table of paths on each platform, and the
> > > environment
> > > > > variable that can be used to override them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Eric
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here's the doc, no interface.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Ivan
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> 




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