Re: to find fastest debian mirror

[Dale Martin <dmartin@ececs.uc.edu>]

Bruce Perens <bruce@va.debian.org> writes:

> I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under
> /tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist.
> Set your umask so that others do not have write permissions on the directory
> and its files _before_ you create the directory. Mkdir will fail if any of
> the security problems exist.

Instead of using "/tmp", I think it should firast try the environment
variable $TMPDIR, and then go to /tmp if that doesn't exist.  ($TMPDIR
seems to be a fairly standard variable, so why not use it?)

That's just a small nit - this looks like a really cool idea.  I have done
the same thing a few times by hand trying to find the fastest mirror.  Now
I can check each and every time :-)

Later,
	Dale

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