[darcs-users] Re: darcs and patches@ mail

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:48:05 +1100
BARBOUR Timothy <Timothy_BARBOUR at rta.nsw.gov.au> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aggelos Economopoulos [mailto:aoiko at cc.ece.ntua.gr]
> [...]
> > tree. Could you change it to first try _darcs as a temporary dir and
> > only if it's unusable (e.g. read-only) fall back to /tmp?
> 
> /tmp is intended for temporary files. On many machines it is an
> especially fast filesystem (e.g. tmpfs), for this reason. It would be
> better to make it configurable (perhaps it already is ?). The
> directory to use is sometimes controlled by an environment variable
> (TMPDIR) or by a config option.

Well, on many machines it is a very small filesystem, also for this
reason 8)

Aggelos