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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:50:40 -0400
From:      Chris Williams <psion@geekspace.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
Message-ID:  <393E3710.363AC6CF@geekspace.com>
References:  <200006070424.e574Od303232@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200006070655.XAA97086@apollo.backplane.com>

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I have to wonder, with all this discussion about one tmp being cleared
at boot and the other not...Do FreeBSD users really reboot so often that
this is an important case? ;)

Isn't it kind of, well, short-sighted, to rely on cleaning something out
at boot-time on a system which could potentailly see uptime measured in
years?
I would think it's even sillier to say that your security relies on /tmp
being cleared at boot -- does that mean FreeBSD needs to be rebooted
every x days to remain secure? Please. If this is the case, something is
a lot more seriously wrong than having two /tmps..


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