From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 0:39:51 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5AA37B404; Tue, 28 May 2002 00:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01DC22173; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:39:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:39:43 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: Mike Barcroft 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> References: <200205280603.g4S63pY24227@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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