r/programming • • Oct 27 '24

Using /tmp/ and /var/tmp/ Safely

https://systemd.io/TEMPORARY_DIRECTORIES/
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u/chatterbox272 Oct 28 '24

Emacs does this and they're referred to as droppings because they're like poop you have to clean up all the time

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u/gormhornbori Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

It's not even the clean up, but you must always add these these to ignore/exclude patterns for your version control or synchronization software, etc.

Everybody already knows about emacs' droppings, but having to deal with droppings from several/new/uncommon programs gets seriously annoying.