-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello,
I joined this mailinglist because of my concern pointed in: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206604 How stupid anyone could be that stores anything in /tmp. I think it is a problem to change the default behavior of a system that in essence will result in data loss. As pointed out by others you should not use /tmp to store data, my return question is then, why are the other ./tmp directories not wiped? If any ./tmp on a partition was 'kernel' governed I could agree that a semi-ramdisk would be gone upon reboot, or after an application was done running. But it is not. In any case my request would be to put a message with bells and beeps in the ebuild that cause the /etc/conf.d/bootmisc change announcing that by then the default option for /tmp is deletion on boot. To be consistent, also delete /var/tmp. If anyone thinks wiping /var/tmp is evil, please reconsider /tmp too. In my opinion WIPE_TMP should be in the same state as RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP. Unless anyone can make sure a user knows what he is doing, disable it. Yours Sincerely, Stefan de Konink ps. No I did not have data loss, like any good admin I read before I apply. And yes I prefer to store anything that will not cause harm, such as extracted sources for gdb use in /tmp. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkVb/YH1+F2Rqwn0RCsK4AJ4wEQPC5MrCrZdIEzKIjJkh+pKNoQCfX1BG alIrUmXiM2kulk3p635PiZk= =57tK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
