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 1JGNv2-0006gB-D8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:20:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2E18E04E8; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3DFE04E8 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119D665911 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.81 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.81 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.789, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZCQzBAWrK6HM for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B106578D for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JGNuU-0004PW-NZ for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:38 +0000 Received: from static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.113.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:38 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:19:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <479156FF.5030508@xs4all.nl> <20080119021236.GO10389@aerie.halcy0n.com> <4791F359.1050500@gentoo.org> <20080119232920.GA17770@dspnet.fr.eu.org> 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; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF12B285AC7FAE410A46C05F8" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20080108 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20080119232920.GA17770@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=F9A40662; url=subkeys.pgp.net Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 04252c10-772f-43ff-9643-72e2d3dee513 X-Archives-Hash: a72e35914ac1133cdb8df4e0ee012afb This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF12B285AC7FAE410A46C05F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Olivier Galibert wrote: > 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. >> POSIX wrote: /tmp A directory made available for applications that need a place to cre= ate=20 temporary files. Applications shall be allowed to create files in this=20 directory, but shall not assume that such files are preserved between=20 invocations of the application. > 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. >=20 > It's just another bug of the FHS that shoule be ignored. The only one you would have to get annoyed at is yourself. Every spec ou= t there=20 says you don't store persistent info on /tmp. Use /var/tmp if you want t= o keep=20 things between boots. That's why it's there. :P --=20 fonts, by design, by neglect gcc-porting, for a fact or just for effect wxwindows @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 --------------enigF12B285AC7FAE410A46C05F8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHkpOOiqiDRvmkBmIRCBgPAKCCzyJTVxm8EJ3TduYSWDXO4lWVnQCgr4Xb 1zjLc6o5bueyUnY5gkwGjgg= =eG6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF12B285AC7FAE410A46C05F8-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list