Re: Orbit's temp. directory

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, David Johnston wrote:

> thanks for the explanation.  I figured you did it that way for a reason.
> 
> Why aren't the orbit directories in /tmp removed when Orbit shuts down?  
> Is the cookie intended to be persistent across Orbit sessions?

. The cookie file is created by gnome, not ORBit. It usually stays around
there "just because".
. The orb-* UNIX socket connection points are usually removed by
ORBit when the application exits, but may be left around if the
application crashes or is killed.
. The /tmp/orbit-username directory itself doesn't get removed because
multiple programs and libraries can be using the one directory.

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