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["John Brooks" <address@hidden>]

Hi nav,

the load was released with concurrent set to true, it was creating divider
pallet loads, doesn't seem right, but a hacked it to false and removed the
loads from the lane and it seems to have worked, might be a bug, i'll ask
sas.

as far as the T_ORD message, can you please fault it, it is not being done

Thanks

john


-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Nemec [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: 17 April 2003 12:19
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Privacy considerations


On Donnerstag, 17. April 2003 11:06, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> At the moment, we put everything in ~/.TeXmacs, except for
> temporary files, which are created using tmpnam (this is indeed unsafe).

Well, as long as they are below /tmp, there is no danger. I don't worry
about
people breaking into my running notebook. The thing I want to be safe
against
is someone stealing it and rebooting it from CD or even physically examine
the HD to recover data. Since /tmp is a tmpfs and swap is of, the data there
is safe.

> Nevertheless, temporary files are mostly used for not-so-important data,
> like the conversion of images. Also, we soon plan to put all temporary
> files in ~/.TeXmacs/system.

I think that is not such a good idea. /tmp is there just for that purpose,
so
why not use it? (independantly of my own paranoid security demands)

The home directory is good for everything that should last. Anyhow, there
may
be strict quota, or it may only be accessible via a slow NFS connection.
Therefore the local /tmp directory usually is the better place.

> As to printing: we create a .ps files in
> ~/.TeXmacs/system and print it using the lpr or a user-defined command.

Same thing as above: /tmp would clearly be the better place for that IMO.
(Of
course, if a user wants to export the .ps, it should not go to /tmp as
default, but that is a different matter than a temporary .ps file used for
printing only.

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