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Re: non-persistant storage?


On 12/12/2019 7:00 AM, Ulli Horlacher 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 cannot use an environment variable, because different processes need to
read/write the data.

/proc is non-persistant (in respect to a reboot), but It is not a generic
storage place.

What can I use with cygwin instead?

Installing third party software is not an option, it must work with a
standard Windows (and cygwin).

I would think of temp directories, such as /tmp.  They can be cleaned out at will
on restart, no?

Regards - Eliot

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