also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> [2009.05.26.0823 +0200]:
> I belive this would lead to more applications storing more date there
> while expecting it to survive reboots.  We want less of these
> applications, not more. :)

I fully agree. I just don't think it's the best approach.

> Those wanting a different setting for user temporary directories
> could consider the libpam-tmpdir and tell it to use /var/tmp/, or
> set $TMPDIR and $TMP using other means.

I think the problem is lack of awareness. We ought to somehow make
sure that everyone knows that /tmp is very volatile.

Maybe a /tmp/README file or something like that?

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