On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 02:07, Mark Blunier wrote: > However, if a program > needs to mount a file system temporarily, it needs to know of a > place that it can assume is 'safe'.
[presuming /mnt is available for that purpose, and doesn't have other stuff under it] Unless, of course, another program running at the same time also assumes that /mnt is a safe place to mount things. I, as a programmer, would hate to be told "/mnt is the one and only place to mount temporary filesystems" especially if everyone was being told the same thing. A better arrangment is for programs to be allowed to create their own mount points somewhere (e.g. /mnt/progname.pid). The standard could specify mount points for installed removable media (e.g. /mnt/cdrom) without naming all the possiblities, and also allow for on-the-fly creation of other mount points as needed. Randy