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 1JGW0c-0003ML-Qc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:58:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21D48E09D2; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63291E09D0 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1588135fga.14 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:58:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=JLV52qpAd5KBnbeBFCMbkkkVwlUrU6lWUOAq6nDD208=; b=k+Pw+sHHpMVpNeZSFayzi/blpJ3An+Q9bofkr8RDwtTKbJXJNEt74oUtXdXnPRz+E3lvy8PCaGYwfMIMIExBGPJmY93EOe7rB+TGU7y08LG4WE9sTfP5Gyar0I6NOmlze/WLeVJl3QLedpIxWVpFreLi6pJwnIZ6pi04bp1ebKY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=BBxQ4uPyrPwu/RBeu2PBKMYGTH2WHbIb+mkeQtuYpRc6kYq8ldxS1jKVW3MsAKQRPU9Mf+kAAaDXnjsvOXuDAn8I4Ej9y2dNAuh1Z+gTghQ5yYpF6jr/4UtZzufxiRY+M7X//At7QHs8DYnhRNu3dBZS1ofHU7JvJuQa2cOTOl0= Received: by 10.82.121.15 with SMTP id t15mr9789341buc.1.1200819489613; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:58:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.225.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d27sm10344479nfh.34.2008.01.20.00.58.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:58:08 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:52:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080120013901.GB5048@sympatico.ca> <4792C782.1070806@gmail.com> <20080120045549.GD5048@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080120045549.GD5048@sympatico.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801201052.13182.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: cf0f8aa9-9415-4f56-b263-debe89aa4ae2 X-Archives-Hash: b3a984761c660ab5ec1368fefa6ae8e9 On Sunday 20 January 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > 080119 Kevin wrote: > > To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot, > > change WIPE_TMP to "yes" in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc > > Thanks: I will consider the implications. There aren't any implications. By *definition*, the contents of /tmp should not be relied on to survive a reboot or even subsequent invocations of the same program. Any app that does rely on the contents of /tmp still being there is thus fundamentally broken in it's behaviour and should be avoided or fixed. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list