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