Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:33:20 +0200 From: "mouss" <usebsd@free.fr> To: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Peter van Dijk" <petervd@vuurwerk.nl> Cc: <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <NDBBJDFPGLMLFHLNEEOMCEIGFMAA.usebsd@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote > > It should be /var/tmp. yes. and if ever someone thinks it should go to /usr/tmp, then I see no reason to have a /var. also, the BSD/OS mfs proposal is not that god. This limits the size of /tmp, and uses mfs for things that do not need to be in mfs. the first thing I used to do on BSD/OS was to remove the mfs mount and to softlink /var/tmp to /tmp. > It's bad enough that some bozo created two > standard locations for temporary files (/tmp and /var/tmp), we don't > want to add a third. and may be someday, we'll have a /usr/local/tmp, /usr/src/tmp, ... yes, ther's an opportunity for a tmp dir in every directory, but that's not a sufficient reason to create it. one could also say that many tmp dirs are needed, just to "organize" that tmp stuff. then you'll see /TMP, /Tmp, ... /TEMP, /WINDOWS/TEMP. and why not /*/"temporary internet files"... only one tmp dir is needed, and it's called a tmp dir. ther's no need for "find / |grep tmp" to find temporary files. > Frankly, it makes no sense to have more then one. I fully, completely, infinitely, ..., agree. >In every machine I've ever configured for the last umpteen years I've created > a /var/tmp partition and softlinked /tmp to it. so did I. I even think this should be the default... for me /var is the partition that contains the "other" stuff, and thus the "remaining" space. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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