[gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xs4all.nl>]

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Hello,


I joined this mailinglist because of my concern pointed in:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206604


How stupid anyone could be that stores anything in /tmp. I think it is a
problem to change the default behavior of a system that in essence will
result in data loss.

As pointed out by others you should not use /tmp to store data, my
return question is then, why are the other ./tmp directories not wiped?
If any ./tmp on a partition was 'kernel' governed I could agree that a
semi-ramdisk would be gone upon reboot, or after an application was done
running. But it is not.


In any case my request would be to put a message with bells and beeps in
the ebuild that cause the /etc/conf.d/bootmisc change announcing that by
then the default option for /tmp is deletion on boot. To be consistent,
also delete /var/tmp. If anyone thinks wiping /var/tmp is evil, please
reconsider /tmp too. In my opinion WIPE_TMP should be in the same state
as RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP. Unless anyone can make sure a user knows what he
is doing, disable it.



Yours Sincerely,

Stefan de Konink

ps. No I did not have data loss, like any good admin I read before I
apply. And yes I prefer to store anything that will not cause harm, such
as extracted sources for gdb use in /tmp.
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