Module Name: src
Committed By: martin
Date: Sun Sep 30 10:38:05 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/etc/rc.d: cleartmp
src/share/man/man5: rc.conf.5
Log Message:
Discussed some years ago but never commited: add an option to have a
single tmpfs (on /tmp) and use that for /var/shm as well (via a symlink
created after the tmpfs on /tmp has been mounted)
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.12 -r1.13 src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp
cvs rdiff -u -r1.174 -r1.175 src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp
diff -u src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp:1.12 src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp:1.13
--- src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp:1.12 Fri Jul 3 18:36:54 2015
+++ src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp Sun Sep 30 10:38:05 2018
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
-# $NetBSD: cleartmp,v 1.12 2015/07/03 18:36:54 dholland Exp $
+# $NetBSD: cleartmp,v 1.13 2018/09/30 10:38:05 martin Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: cleartmp
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ cleartmp_start()
(cd ${tmp_dir} &&
find -x . ! -name . ! -name lost+found ! -name quota.user \
! -name quota.group -exec rm -rf -- {} \+ -type d -prune)
+
+ # if requested, create symlink for /var/shm
+ if [ -n "${var_shm_symlink}" ]; then
+ /bin/rm -rf /var/shm
+ /bin/mkdir -m 1777 "${var_shm_symlink}"
+ /bin/ln -s "${var_shm_symlink}" /var/shm
+ fi
}
load_rc_config $name
Index: src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
diff -u src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5:1.174 src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5:1.175
--- src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5:1.174 Sun Sep 23 09:21:00 2018
+++ src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Sun Sep 30 10:38:05 2018
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rc.conf.5,v 1.174 2018/09/23 09:21:00 maxv Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rc.conf.5,v 1.175 2018/09/30 10:38:05 martin Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Matthew R. Green
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -351,6 +351,13 @@ Defaults to false.
Boolean value.
Remove block-type swap devices at shutdown time.
Useful if swapping onto RAIDframe devices.
+.It Sy var_shm_symlink
+A path.
+If set, names a path that /var/shm will be symlinked to.
+.Pp
+The path needs to live on a tmpfs file system.
+A typical value (assuming /tmp is mounted on tmpfs) would be
+.Pa /tmp/.shm .
.El
.Ss Block device subsystems
.Bl -tag -width net_interfaces
