Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:39:43 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 Message-ID: <20020528073943.GD77228@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200205280603.g4S63pY24227@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com>
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-On [20020528 09:30], Mike Barcroft (mike@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >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. Well, it would not just be vi that needs to be changed. It affects more programs. Also, it means hier(7) would need updating. What does SUS or some other spec have to say about it btw? Don't have my manuals handy here. So, would there be a general consensus to mark /tmp and /var/tmp as equal? If so we can continue with the other points, to note: 1) Update hier(7) with the consensus. 2) Fix tuning(7) and other manual pages with the updated information. 3) Create a symlink from /var/tmp -> /tmp. 4) Fix any application in the base system to use /var properly, instead of /var/tmp. Did I miss something? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@wxs.nl, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ | http://www.tendra.org/ The rest is silence... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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