* Donaldson, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently developed some patches to the Linux 2.2 kernels which solve
> the /tmp race problem without needing to define environment variables -
> useful particularly for naive applications and scripts which dont use
> TMPDIR and friends.
>
> The patch creates "dynamic" symlinks, which point to different paths
> depending on the user accessing them (for example, including the UID in the
> path name). Such a link can be placed instead of /tmp and/or /var/tmp, and
> any other similar directories. More usefully, these links can be configured
> to automatically create the directory they refer to if it does not exist.
>
> This means you can create a directory such as /tmp_files, for example, and
> have the /tmp link automatically create user directories in it on demand.
> Default permissions and ownership can be specified.
>
> The patches are available from http://www.datadeliverance.com in the Linux
> Patches section, along with a full discussion of the issues involved. Your
> comments on the scheme are invited.
After reading the explanation of your work, I missed how you can actually have
global data in the /tmp directory. For example, /tmp/.font-unix or
/tmp/.X11-unix.
-chris
