On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 08:20:46PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 26/05/12 19:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> writes: > >> On 26/05/12 19:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >>> I find some of the assertions in this thread confusing. I've been > >>> using tmpfs /tmp on my laptop for quite some time and have watched > >>> hour-long movies via the Adobe Flash player and have never noticed any > >>> unexpected consumption of space in /tmp. > > > >>> Are you sure that video streaming via Adobe's Flash player works the > >>> way that you seem to think it works? > > > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666096 > > > > That bug contains little actual information, not even what software was > > being used. > > > > Ok... so you want a prove? > > * Open with iceweasel http://vimeo.com/13726978 > * Ensure that is playing with flashplayer (right click on the movie > should show the typical dialog that includes "about flashplayer" > * Now launch: > watch df -h /tmp/ > * And see how the space used grows. > > *Important*: use "df -h /tmp" NOT "du -hs /tmp", since the flash player > deletes the file entry from /tmp as soon as it gets the inode allocated. > I believe this a measure to "prevent" piracy (people ripping the video > from /tmp)
I hope it isn't, because it's poor "security". It's easy to read the file from /proc/$pid/fd/$num Mike -- 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/20120526185519.ga28...@glandium.org