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 1JGM1j-00086h-Ng for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ADF7E02D0; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC25AE02D0 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD61B404E for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.034 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.034 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.565, 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 dTHuS6DxkQZe for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:50 +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 AF1B8B401C for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JGM1R-0007gE-4i for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:41 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:41 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479156FF.5030508@xs4all.nl> <20080119021236.GO10389@aerie.halcy0n.com> <4791F359.1050500@gentoo.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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b58a5de0-aa33-4094-b88d-c046a6a635e4 X-Archives-Hash: 77e0293828b35ff636fad4327e99fc6d Richard Freeman posted 4791F359.1050500@gentoo.org, 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=20 every time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably=20 argue that tmp doesn't mean tmp? Never-the-less, an elog wouldn't hurt, and the implementation cost is=20 pretty low as well, so I'd say just elog it. That way, there's two=20 warnings to point to instead of just one (the name of the dir), for the=20 inevitable complaints. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list