On Wed, 10.11.10 16:17, Ryan Lortie ([email protected]) wrote: > > 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.
Good point. Though then again I think we eventually want to do tmpfs /tmp too. /var/tmp is for largish stuff. But I guess this is reason enough to not redirect $TMPDIR like this for now. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
