On Sun 16 Mar 2014 08:21:02 Laurent Bercot wrote: > On 16/03/2014 03:06, Rich Felker wrote: > > /tmp is not suitable for this; you can never assume the ability to > > create a fixed-name file in /tmp, since the namespace of /tmp is > > shared on a first-come, first-served basis. Any programs using /tmp > > except for creating randomly-named files there are buggy. > > Hm, indeed. Unix/FHS/whatever lacks a guaranteed writable and > boot-time-available directory just for root. > / is not guaranteed writable, and should not be. > /var/* is not guaranteed available at boot time. > /tmp is not reserved to root. > I have such a directory on my systems (/mnt/tmpfs, 0755, with /tmp > actually being a symlink to /mnt/tmpfs/tmp, 1777). Some distributions > use an initramfs and create /lib/rw (ugh). Unfortunately, nothing is > standardized... Maybe we could use /dev ? Ha ha, only serious.
this is why Linux distros introduced /run in place of /var/run -mike
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
