On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:55:07PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Richard Hartmann
> | > What makes /tmp unsuitable for this purpose? It's already possible > | > to securely create directories owned by the user there, and these > | > runtime files are, by definition, temporary. > | /tmp will most likely be cleared out from time to time. /run is > | guaranteed to. > No, it's not. The earlier consensus was: > I think it makes sense to require applications to not assume that the > contents are persistent across reboots. This does not tie the hands > of distributions, but require that using a tmpfs (or similar) will > work. > This does not guarantee it being cleaned, just forces apps to cope with > it being cleaned. This means the requirements for /run are different than for /var/run, then. Is that intentional? It's explicitly specified that files under /var/run must be cleared at the beginning of the boot process, and I would have expected the same for /run. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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