As in "I have ties older than your /tmp". On 7 December 2014 at 05:29, Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:22 AM, <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: > >> 40 years on, you'd think someone would deal with it. > > > The point I was trying to make is that it was realised early on (eg, when > time-sharing at universities) > that a shared /tmp was a problem. Hacks such as +s or special schemes for > allocating files don't really > address the problem. > > Now look at that number: 40. Four decades. During that time there has been > any amount of foolish > crud added to this or that kernel, distribution ,graphics subsystem, > standards, ... but instead of fixing > it after 4 0 years, we get notes explaining that it's the application's > business, in this case the shell, > or perhaps the underlying library, to try to address "security issues" > instead of fixing it, once for all. > After 40 years (more than a generation). >
