From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGoqj-0001kX-Hh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:05:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B28F3E049C; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A75E049C for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BBF65E5F for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:05:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:05:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <479156FF.5030508@xs4all.nl> <479350EE.9000403@gentoo.org> <20080121023818.GC6544@comet> In-Reply-To: <20080121023818.GC6544@comet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart12517233.gC3NlxR59I"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801210005.29587.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d4fc8fb9-1d13-4f74-8c7b-5be78f1308d1 X-Archives-Hash: 081f7b579773d6923591be53ad36b0be --nextPart12517233.gC3NlxR59I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 20 January 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 08:47 Sun 20 Jan , Richard Freeman wrote: > > Duncan wrote: > >> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /va= r/ > >> 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? > > > > Anybody who comes from the world of Windows - where temp directories > > aren't cleaned and usually eventually grow to 1/3rd of the disk on a > > typical spyware-laden install? > > > > You and I know what /tmp is for, but we also know that we shouldn't be > > running as root all the time and yet I'm sure there is a note in the > > install handbook about that. 95% of new linux users come from Windows, > > and as such they have a few bad habits that they'd probably be all to > > happy to lose if somebody takes the time to point them out. > > Just one other point here. 95% of new Linux users is not 95% of new > Gentoo Linux users. another point: i dont think ive ever met anyone who even knew what the Wind= ows=20 temp directory was or even how to find it. no one relies on that directory= =20 to manage their files. =2Dmike --nextPart12517233.gC3NlxR59I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAR5QoGUFjO5/oN/WBAQKPmBAAuDsNv2Iql0gvClpb1dqc20flpQDG4aBP 35uwyruWFAafe1E234gvTJjplPd9dxw8snZ9tymU8Fsj2ufoSmgkMd1CQfgKVMOD MSFeIKE52TWuHGApjFxLK0P0r8KpwRHM332Li3BzBUxABX/vc3GHkZT0XnfSuVGq LM8vfc9aerYEKhDVfhmX+IVA2BdPG4UlPXIR9cyyV8Wp8fTgTWWCKc8335vbpg4K X5aJ/A3LPTgBVyC3HhWSfa6P78bs+sPeC4LZxSdkKfPDyK3REALnuTrZQ9rxUy3f TScSX6Gi963ST2NAjjwrH5A6T1x6imEx6HTOueRSPOjCkVtdWc7ZnOx6VWUBkLU6 mlJXLr6SQx/uPYgVyom7WnMaLPFl+XylAsQtw8n65kCMcn5U45HsrDvENtMkFP+2 oA8rDl0ROTjX4xNPcMV47bADCiFvbGaUS7LhvR3w8RrSgvxBepIWtzUraC3MoVN4 v9hPthutJ64HwZdFowaYXN1AKvcRzJszFgIFix7zXkSaYSSj+35x26hBlTV7eiEC gl1GMQx3oAjyP+HObTkMtRwrwrOZD4RVVrwXKvDO63gT4dDYtsI2D+nutZWLA0AX 7qDgBtx429TtVqCdk1+Eel82aIjoOMeu8Yg4fPJ/tLCeZWLEYBqqti5R5Uy/FsAK IX0bTCpChmQ= =5B+p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12517233.gC3NlxR59I-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list