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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:10:00 +0200
From:      Peter van Dijk <petervd@vuurwerk.nl>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
Message-ID:  <20000606141000.H36228@vuurwerk.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000606222934.9047A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM %2B1200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000606222934.9047A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz>

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Absence of /tmp is a pretty major oversight for any machine.  Putting it
> on the root partition is doubly so.  If there's no sepsrate partition it
> should at least be an alias to /var/tmp or something of the sort. 

To /usr/tmp, please, then.

/var/tmp is designed to be not cleaned out on reboots.

Greetz, Peter.
-- 
petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]


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