Re: /var/tmp in current

2014-12-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: /var/tmp has been changed to be a symlink to /tmp. Traditionally, the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp has been that the former is cleaned after a reboot, while the latter isn't. Making /var/tmp a symlink

Re: /var/tmp in current

2014-11-19 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2014-11-18 Tue 12:58 PM |, Martin Schr??der wrote: See hier(7): A symbolic link to the system /tmp directory. To protect other users of /var from overfill conditions, this is no longer a space you can trust to retain storage over a reboot. Periodically cleaned by daily(8). My

/var/tmp in current

2014-11-18 Thread Liviu Daia
/var/tmp has been changed to be a symlink to /tmp. Traditionally, the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp has been that the former is cleaned after a reboot, while the latter isn't. Making /var/tmp a symlink to /tmp means it's no longer practical to make /tmp a ramdisk. Is this a wise

Re: /var/tmp in current

2014-11-18 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-11-18 12:08 GMT+01:00 Liviu Daia liviu.d...@gmail.com: /var/tmp has been changed to be a symlink to /tmp. Traditionally, the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp has been that the former is cleaned after a reboot, while the latter isn't. Making /var/tmp a symlink to /tmp means it's

Re: /var/tmp in current

2014-11-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
/var/tmp has been changed to be a symlink to /tmp. Traditionally, the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp has been that the former is cleaned after a reboot, while the latter isn't. Making /var/tmp a symlink to /tmp means it's no longer practical to make /tmp a ramdisk. Is this a wise