On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 20:37 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Mhmm, I don't think we should. > > TMPDIR influences tmpnam(), however that function kinda expects a common > /tmp namespace anyway, so redirecting this is not necessary. > > I think we shouldn't break assumptions about $TMPDIR, for example that > it might be useful for communicating with other people. > > It's actually one of the things where I believe polyinstantiated /tmp is > actually going wrong: $TMP is shared between users, which has many > negative aspects, but also allows users to communicate with each other.
/tmp is also often used to store "largeish" things like downloads in progress. I don't think we want that in a tmpfs. Cheers _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
