[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] fbarray: make all fbarrays hidden files

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Apr 23 14:48:32 CEST 2018


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:14:13PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> fbarray stores its data in a shared file, which is not hidden.
> This leads to polluting user's HOME directory with visible
> files when running DPDK as non-root. Change fbarray to always
> create hidden files by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Is /tmp always user-accessible? Maybe not use home
>     directory at all?
> 
Good change.

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

A further improvement would to put the files as not-hidden but inside a
hidden subdirectory e.g. ".dpdk"


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