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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash |
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> recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that |
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> reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash. |
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Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I |
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certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on |
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tmpfs for over a decade. |
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/var/cache strikes me as a much better place for some kind of recovery |
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file. While /var/tmp is typically less volatile than /tmp, it isn't |
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really something that software should just rely on. |
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Perhaps FHS says otherwise, but anybody relying on FHS is going to get |
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burned because lots of distros purge /var/tmp. The problem with FHS |
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is that nobody really bothers to try to update it any longer. |
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Certainly people think twice before deviating it, but they still do |
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from time to time, usually in the same ways that other distros |
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deviate. |
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Rich |
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