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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:27:46 +0100
From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: non-persistant storage?
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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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