Document accurately how supermin appliance uses /tmp as a cache.

diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod
index 181a053..285d901 100644 (file)
--- a/fish/guestfish.pod
+++ b/fish/guestfish.pod
@@ -866,9 +866,9 @@ set, it uses C<more>.
 
 Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp>.
 
-If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then each
-handle will require rather a large amount of space in this directory
-for short periods of time (~ 80 MB).  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
+If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then the
+real appliance is cached in this directory, shared between all
+handles belonging to the same EUID.  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
 configure another directory to use in case C</tmp> is not large
 enough.
 

diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index de5e254..c235383 100644 (file)
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -1684,9 +1684,9 @@ has the same effect as calling C<guestfs_set_trace (g, 1)>.
 
 Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp>.
 
-If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then each
-handle will require rather a large amount of space in this directory
-for short periods of time (~ 80 MB).  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
+If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then the
+real appliance is cached in this directory, shared between all
+handles belonging to the same EUID.  You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
 configure another directory to use in case C</tmp> is not large
 enough.