From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: non-persistant storage?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191212212746.GA12864@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8905c7b6-b2e6-52bf-bcdd-66890db91e9e@cs.umass.edu>
On Thu 2019-12-12 (14:18), Eliot Moss wrote:
> > I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistant.
> > On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its
> > content is lost.
> > But on cygwin /var/run is stored on disk.
> >
> I would think of temp directories, such as /tmp. They can be cleaned out at will
> on restart, no?
The data MUST be lost on shutdown (or power failure), not on reboot!
Therefore it must be hold in memory, not on disk.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-12 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 12:28 Ulli Horlacher
2019-12-12 21:27 ` Eliot Moss
2019-12-12 21:40 ` Ulli Horlacher [this message]
2019-12-12 21:59 ` Eliot Moss
2019-12-13 1:33 ` L A Walsh
2019-12-13 6:28 ` Brian Inglis
2019-12-13 9:34 ` L A Walsh
2019-12-13 10:06 ` Ulli Horlacher
2019-12-16 10:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
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