Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Cristian Rodríguez
<crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El 28/03/12 16:10, Jos Poortvliet escribió:
>  But for now -
> > let's keep /tmp on disk for at least one more release...
>
>
>
> Well, I disagree :-) what you are essentially proposing is not adopting this
> scheme due to the existent of corner cases and buggy software, not good
> enough  for me.
>
> This is what I believe must be done:
>
> - For system daemons, turn on PrivateTmp in systemd .services when
> applicable (list of packages -->
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782466)
> This ensures that temp files are only available to the daemon process and if
> it crashes or misbehaves files will be deleted on spot.

If a process crashes I'm probably going to *want* those files as they
are pertinent to the state of the software at the time of crash.

> - For users, implement what Lnussel and fcrozat suggested, a separate tmp
> per user in /run/<user>/ tmpfs.
> Otherwise temporary file creation bugs will keep biting us forever.

I like this. I already use a tmpdir located in /home/<me>/tmp, managed
by way of TMPDIR.



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Jon
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