Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
Not that I'm objecting, but more for my own edification: are there
actually systems out there that don't set the sticky bit on /tmp?
That just seems... insane
I can't recall a standard, multi-user Unix-flavored system on which
/tmp didn't have the sticky-bit
A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions.
And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't
empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they
move it?
Picky, picky, picky. Well, for completeness I suppose we should
mention the deleted file
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions.
And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't
empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they
move it?
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
Has /proc become POSIX, or are we drifting into the Linux specific here?
/proc is in Solaris for processes but not anything else. I'd imagine
there's still a way to do this in non-Linux though. Heck, I remember
hitting
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my
pid file (as opposed to having to be either root or the user
created for the program)
Create a subdirectory of /tmp. Your PID file will be
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes:
The sticky bit probably doesn't fly since it isn't my box. It's just
somewhere that folks will want to install my app. So I shouldn't be
requiring global (effecting every /tmp user) system changes. (I'm only
requiring an app specific user and init.d
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes:
I can probably count on running on a linux box, so I can probably count on
the FHS. But the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my pid
file (as opposed to having to be either root or the user created for the
program).
The sticky-bit
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes:
I can probably count on running on a linux box, so I can probably count
on
the FHS. But the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my pid
file (as opposed to having to be either
