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On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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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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I don't know of any. I was involved with the LSB ages ago, and they were |
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involved with the FHS, and that was just one of the things I picked up - |
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the FHS specifically says /var/tmp is for files that are temporary but |
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not volatile - files that programs are supposed to clean up behind them |
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but are saved if the program is prevented from deleting them. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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