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From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:46 PM |
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> On 16/12/2014 20:05, walt wrote: |
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> > On 12/15/2014 11:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> /tmp is still very much in use and very much needed, it isn't going |
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> >> anywhere soon. The FHS has something interesting to say about /tmp, |
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> >> along the lines of: |
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> >> |
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> >> "A general use scratch pad area where files written are not expected to |
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> >> survive successive invocations of the program that wrote them". That's |
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> >> interesting as it means the sysadmin can delete everything in /tmp at |
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> >> any time for any reason, |
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> > |
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> > bofh can delete them for no reason at all while you're still using them :) |
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> Exactly :-) |
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> And as long as the app doesn't close the file descriptor, everything |
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> will continue to work just fine. I used to do this for fun about once a |
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> week or so on a many multiuser host, then tell users to tell upstream to |
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> fix the stupid bugs in any apps that broke. I've calmed down since then, |
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> must have something to do with the onset of senility... |
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I used to do this myself every so often, in a fit of hard drive neatness OCD. |
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Then I discovered that ssh-agent decided that a good default place to put its domain socket was /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and deleting it breaks ssh key forwarding, among other things :\ |
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--Mike |
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