From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E76FE37AC for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:48:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga106.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 23 Apr 2018 05:48:36 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,318,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="48352540" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.51]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2018 05:48:34 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:48:33 +0100 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:48:32 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Anatoly Burakov Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20180423124832.GA100540@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <738d08e521a8987ceeb2748db5b765d8b8531e54.1524481846.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <738d08e521a8987ceeb2748db5b765d8b8531e54.1524481846.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] fbarray: make all fbarrays hidden files X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:48:38 -0000 On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:14:13PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote: > fbarray stores its data in a shared file, which is not hidden. > This leads to polluting user's HOME directory with visible > files when running DPDK as non-root. Change fbarray to always > create hidden files by default. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov > --- > > Notes: > Is /tmp always user-accessible? Maybe not use home > directory at all? > Good change. Acked-by: Bruce Richardson A further improvement would to put the files as not-hidden but inside a hidden subdirectory e.g. ".dpdk"