[ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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>> On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com
>> <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread "My
>>     thoughts confirmed", and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in
>>     stores it's temp files.
>>
>>     I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video
>>     (or part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or
>>     /home/pete/.adobe
>>
>>     Does anyone know where it downloads it's cache to?
>>
>>     Or is there a CLI way of following the data (the tail command looks
>>     promising but I don't know what to tail!)
>>
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>> I seem to recall that swf files are cached in their browser config
>> directory but also that they're compiled to bytecode so you might not be
>> able to identify them.
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>> The best command tool to start with would be lsof, which should show you
>> open files. I have a feeling that you might find that a plugin library
>> is causing the problem but that it runs inside the browser so isn't
>> visible to the OS.
>>
>> s/
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>>  Hi,
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> lsof gives unknown command ls -of the same!
>
>
Odd, it's a standard Linux command. How about /usr/bin/lsof?

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