firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

2016-09-06 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Richard Braun wrote: > This was famously shown with the example of the > firmlink translator used in /tmp, which would cause the removal of > any file targeted by the firmlink on /tmp cleanup during system > startup. > I see that. It seems to

Re: firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

2016-09-06 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > I haven't been able to find any other places on my system where find uses > -xdev; just bootclean.sh, but my search has not been exhaustive. > > Obviously there's been a long history behind this problem, and I'm new on > the

Re: firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

2016-09-06 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Richard Braun wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > > I haven't been able to find any other places on my system where find uses > > -xdev; just bootclean.sh, but my search has not been exhaustive. > > > >

Re: firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

2016-09-06 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"Brent W. Baccala" writes: > I see that. It seems to still have that problem. I created a directory > /root/baitdir, and put in it a file named 'bait'. As a non-privileged > user, I created a firmlink in /tmp to /root/baitdir and rebooted. Voila! > 'bait' vanished. We