[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] fbarray: make all fbarrays hidden files

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Apr 23 21:56:01 CEST 2018


23/04/2018 15:47, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 23-Apr-18 1:48 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > 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 at intel.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Notes:
> >>      Is /tmp always user-accessible? Maybe not use home
> >>      directory at all?
> >>
> > Good change.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks


> > A further improvement would to put the files as not-hidden but inside a
> > hidden subdirectory e.g. ".dpdk"
> 
> Good suggestions, I'll work on this.

There are other places where we create file.
Please try to move all in the same place.




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