On Thu 2019年12月12日 (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. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<8905c7b6-b2e6-52bf-bcdd-66890db91e9e@cs.umass.edu> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple