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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:12:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A2816E9.1010102@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a98b6467-c692-86ab-4759-d40cb04b21b4@gmail.com>

On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Those guidelines you mention about what /tmp and /var/tmp are "for" are
> probably from the FHS. On the whole, I tend to agree they are good ideas
> but the proper wording is more like this (from memory, being far too
> lazy after a day's work to actually look something up):
> 
> - contents of /tmp are not expected to survive the invocation of the
> program that created them

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES

> - contents of /var/tmp are not expected to survive a reboot
> 
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE

> Which is different from what you said.

Except that /var/tmp is exactly the opposite of what you said :-)

 Not surprisingly, if you follow
> that through, you can run rm -rf /tmp/* in a cron every minute and
> nothing should ever break. Or, every file in /tmp can be anonymous (just
> an inode without a dentry giving it a name)

Cheers,
Wol


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22  6:52 [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it? Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22  7:21 ` R0b0t1
2017-11-22  7:26 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2017-11-22  8:23   ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-22  8:34   ` David Haller
2017-11-22 10:07     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 11:26       ` David Haller
2017-11-23 22:47         ` Martin Vaeth
2017-11-22 13:12   ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-11-22 13:23     ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22 14:11     ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2017-11-22 14:34       ` Wols Lists
2017-11-22 16:27         ` J. Roeleveld
2017-12-05  4:11           ` Taiidan
2017-12-05  4:17             ` R0b0t1
2017-12-05 10:09             ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 10:46               ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 11:13                 ` Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-05 11:39                   ` Mick
2017-12-05 13:07                 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 13:57                   ` Wols Lists
2017-12-05 14:13                     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 21:56               ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-06 13:29                 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-06 15:34                   ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-06 16:07                     ` Wols Lists
2017-12-06 23:51                       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-06 16:12                     ` Wols Lists [this message]
2017-12-06 17:24                     ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Peter
2017-11-22  7:48 ` David Haller
2017-11-22  8:32   ` J. Roeleveld
2017-11-22  8:57     ` David Haller
2017-11-22 12:16       ` Peter Humphrey
2017-11-22 16:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2017-11-28 10:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-01 10:39   ` J. Roeleveld

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