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Re: Lynx /tmp problem
From: makler () MAN TORUN PL (Piotr Klaban)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:31:26 +0100
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 08:47:00AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
Juan Diego Bolanos wrote:I have found a bug in Lynx all versions, except the latest stable release... lynx create temporary files in /tmp in this way....[details of your average /tmp problem snipped].
Alternatively you could redefine TEMP_SPACE macro in userdefs.h before the compilation, from: #define TEMP_SPACE "/tmp/" to: #define TEMP_SPACE "~" This could be configuration option perhaps. Using /tmp as a temporary directory for files downloaded with lynx makes the system out of swap space (at least on Solaris where /tmp is linked with swap). With many users running lynx you could have megabytes of files in /tmp, which could be downloaded directly into user home directory. Lynx makes temporary files for every file it has to download, also for huge zip archives. Piotr Klaban
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