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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:11:54 +0100
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To mount /tmp in a "proper" way...

Why not use "$TMP" or "$TEMP" as below?

$ set | grep TMP
TMP=/cygdrive/d/TEMP
TMPDIR=/cygdrive/d/TEMP
$ mount "$(cygpath -w $TMP)" "/tmp"        <- HERE
$ mount | grep TEMP
d:\TEMP on /tmp type system (binmode)
$

(sidenote: My D drive is an old 8GB drive, dedicated to temp-files)

Not cygwin; i.e. OT:
 You DO have TMP and TEMP set for Windows/"DOS", don't you?
[related: virtual memory/paging file drive;
 Win 2000: System properties/
            Advanced/
             Performance options/
              Virtual memory/
               Change/* ]
IMO it seems stupid to not have it set; i.e. define it be somewhere else
than
on a system partition or drive, also avoiding other active drives.
Probably best set to a dedicated drive on a spare IDE chain. The lower the
spec on
your computer, the more urgent it will be - improves performance to some
degree.


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:51 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?
>
>
> David Garamond wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my
> > clients. The goal is that a user can just extract the .zip file and run
> > postgresql there (ipc-daemon2 + pg_ctl start; initdb need not be done
> > because a zipped 'virgin' data dir will also be provided). Target
> > platforms are Win98SE and WinXP Pro. The target machines do not have
> > Cygwin installed.
> >
> > It's pretty simple to do that. I just put all the files under
> > postgresql-7.4.1\bin\, including many Cygwin DLLs, several needed
> > commands like grep, basename, cat, chmod, sed, etc. And of course,
> > postgres.exe, postmaster.exe (which I copied from postgres.exe;
> > originally it was a symlink to postgres), and ipc-daemon2.exe.
> >
> > However, ipc-daemon2.exe seems to always look for /tmp (which is
> > c:\cygwin\tmp). On Win98, it seems to be able to use c:\tmp if
> > c:\cygwin\tmp doesn't exist, but on WinXP Pro it can't.
> >
> > Rather than creating c:\cygwin\tmp, can I make ipc-daemon2 put
> > MultiFileMsg* and MultiFileShm* in some other place?
>
> You know you can mount /tmp to any directory, right?  Since you
> presumably have a startup script to kick things off, why not just do
> something like the following, assuming the current dir is your install
> dir:
>
> mkdir tmp
> mount -b "`cygpath -am .`" /tmp
>
> If you know the full pathname of the directory you can use that instead
> of cygpath, i.e.
>
> mount -b "c:/program files/whatever/tmp" /tmp
>
> You should probably do this for /bin as well.  See the manpage for more.
>
> Brian
>
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