Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:13:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 Message-ID: <20020528151259.GG5726@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020528035619.D93657@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200205280603.g4S63pY24227@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528032419.C93657@espresso.q9media.com> <20020528073943.GD77228@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020528035619.D93657@espresso.q9media.com>
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On 2002-05-28 03:56, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> writes: > > -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. > > I'm only aware of vi; what other software relies on a permanent > temporary directory? In the case of vi, I think ~/.vi/ would be a far > more suitable location for recoverable files. That depends. On systems where quotas are enabled, users are limited in the size of the files they can edit in approximately half the quotas they've been given if recover files from nvi(1) are saved in ~/.vi or in the current working directory (as vim(1) does right now). I seem to prefer the way nvi works, but my personal preference is not very important. What do the standards say about /var/tmp? -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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