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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by David Robinson <dr...@ast.cam.ac.uk> on 1995/09/03 18:43:00 UTC

Re: 0.8.11 http_main.c has hardcoded path: /usr/tmp/htlock.XXXXXX (fwd)

>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 16:05:58 -0400
>From: "Aram W. Mirzadeh" <aw...@qosina.com>
>
>At 12:56 PM 8/31/95 -0700, you wrote:
>>Forwarded message:
>>To: apache-bugs@apache.org
>>Subject: 0.8.11 http_main.c has hardcoded path: /usr/tmp/htlock.XXXXXX
>>From: Tony Sanders <sa...@bsdi.com>
>>
>>0.8.11 http_main.c has hardcoded path: /usr/tmp/htlock.XXXXXX
>>Seems like that should be a compile time option.
>
>I have to agree with this.  There is no /usr/tmp in Linux.  If somone
>does have it it's either linked to /var/tmp, or just plainly /tmp.

Damn. I changed it to /usr/tmp (from /tmp) at rst's suggestion because
of problems with tmpfs and file locking on SunOS; yet under SunOS
apache does not do file locking.

What should the default location be?

 David.