Conflict in temporary files in multi-user system

[arpaiva]

I'm using mlxu (0.1.10) and noticed that it creates temporary files under /tmp/mlxu. The problem with the current framework is that, if multiple people are using the system and running experiments using mlxu, the mlxu folder in temp in /tmp/ is created with write permissions only for whoever first created the folder. Is there a way to get around this? Perhaps by setting an environment variable that puts those folders elsewhere?

I would suggest in the future making the temp folder /tmp/mlxu_<uid>/ for example to avoid this problem.

[young-geng]

The /tmp/mlxu is created by the logger. In order to change it, you can use command line flags to specify the logging directory:

python experiment.py --logger.output_dir=/path/to/logger/output

[arpaiva]

That is good to know. Thank you.

I still think that it would be good to set the default directory to something a bit more general and robust (#3). Also, it shouldn't break any properly written code because one would either be relying on whatever the default directory is or setting it explicitly. Can you think of a reason not to implement that change?

[arpaiva]

This issue has been open for a while. If you disagree or don't want to apply this change for whatever reason, I understand. Even in that case, please close this issue and the associated PR to mark it one way or the other.