On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Aneurin Price wrote: > I think this discussion needs a sanity check. > > Please remember, the topic of conversation is whether an application > can reasonably make the assumption that the system defined tmp > directory is a suitable place to store temporary data.
/tmp in RAM has been extremely common on Solaris for more than 10 years (/tmp in RAM is the default there). I recall every SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC box at Uni had this configuration. IMO, it is a very clearly cut case: applications cannot reasonably make any assumption about /tmp for any non-trivial usage, and they are to use $TMPDIR to locate the system tmp directory in the first place if they want to use it. This is NOT a Debian thing. It is not even a new requirement, it is so old that TMPDIR has already made it into POSIX/SuS... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPDIR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111115175144.ga29...@khazad-dum.debian.net