On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:18:35PM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500: > > > I think that this would probably warrant an elog. Sure, anybody who > > knows the "correct" way to admin unix doesn't put anything important in > > /tmp - but educating our users before blowing away their data isn't a > > bad thing. We shouldn't assume our users are idiots, but this is an > > obscure enough piece of admin knowledge that I think that users will be > > impacted by the change. > > Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ > tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it > every time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably > argue that tmp doesn't mean tmp?
Tmp has never meant "erase at restart", because restarts are often not predictable. Tmp has sometimes meant things like "erased after a week", or "erased when space gets low", but never "erased after restart" which is just unusable. Frankly, if I'm writing a long email (which mutt stores in /tmp) and a powerloss makes it gone even if I was saving it from time to time while I was writing it, I'll get annoyed. Severely annoyed. It's just another bug of the FHS that shoule be ignored. OG. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
