Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 03:24:19 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 Message-ID: <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <200205280603.g4S63pY24227@freefall.freebsd.org>; from asmodai@FreeBSD.org on Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:03:51PM -0700 References: <200205280603.g4S63pY24227@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> writes: > asmodai 2002/05/27 23:03:50 PDT > > Modified files: > share/man/man7 tuning.7 > Log: > Remove, with extreme prejudice, the notion that /tmp best needs to be a > softlink to /var/tmp. > > This is horribly wrong since /tmp and /var/tmp serve different goals. > Even given the text that in the old days things were different doesn't help, > since our scripts clean /tmp, and we depend on /var/tmp to persist for > vi editing sessions recovery and other likewise applications. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.46 +1 -5 src/share/man/man7/tuning.7 If anything, you should change vi not to store semi-permanent data in a temporary directory. You almost never want to have a temporary directory hanging off a more important partition like / or /var, since users could attack a system by filling /tmp or /var/tmp. Having multiple temporary partitions is also a nuisance, so I usually symbolicly link all mine together. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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