From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2003-05-16 10:29:08
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On Friday 16 May 2003 11:55, Richard Bown wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2003 10:47, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > > And a totally unpractical one, I might add. > > You mean "impractical". And why? To start with, the concept of asking a musician to edit his /etc/fstab. Second, having /tmp in memory. Nowadays disk space is virtually free, RAM still isn't. From my experience, less than 256Mb in your /tmp will cause you trouble, and not the "easy to trace" kind. Almost all apps write into /tmp, many with sometimes very large files, practically none ever bother to check for low disk space conditions. And finally, at the risk of appearing obsessed by this system call, this smells quite a bit like jack's authors should take a peek at the mmap() manpage. -- Guillaume http://www.telegraph-road.org |