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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7
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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

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