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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] fbarray: make all fbarrays hidden files
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:48:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180423124832.GA100540@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <738d08e521a8987ceeb2748db5b765d8b8531e54.1524481846.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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 <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Is /tmp always user-accessible? Maybe not use home
>     directory at all?
> 
Good change.

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

A further improvement would to put the files as not-hidden but inside a
hidden subdirectory e.g. ".dpdk"

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-23 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-23 11:14 Anatoly Burakov
2018-04-23 12:48 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2018-04-23 13:47   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-23 19:56     ` Thomas Monjalon

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