also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> [2009.05.26.0823 +0200]: > I belive this would lead to more applications storing more date there > while expecting it to survive reboots. We want less of these > applications, not more. :)
I fully agree. I just don't think it's the best approach. > Those wanting a different setting for user temporary directories > could consider the libpam-tmpdir and tell it to use /var/tmp/, or > set $TMPDIR and $TMP using other means. I think the problem is lack of awareness. We ought to somehow make sure that everyone knows that /tmp is very volatile. Maybe a /tmp/README file or something like that? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "i love deadlines. i like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- douglas adams
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