Olivier Galibert wrote:
Tmp has never meant "erase at restart", because restarts are often not predictable. Tmp has sometimes meant things like "erased after a week", or "erased when space gets low", but never "erased after restart" which is just unusable.
>> POSIX wrote: /tmpA directory made available for applications that need a place to create temporary files. Applications shall be allowed to create files in this directory, but shall not assume that such files are preserved between invocations of the application.
Frankly, if I'm writing a long email (which mutt stores in /tmp) and a powerloss makes it gone even if I was saving it from time to time while I was writing it, I'll get annoyed. Severely annoyed. It's just another bug of the FHS that shoule be ignored.
The only one you would have to get annoyed at is yourself. Every spec out there says you don't store persistent info on /tmp. Use /var/tmp if you want to keep things between boots. That's why it's there. :P
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