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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:53:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hbarker@firepower.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5
Message-ID:  <199607271653.SAA01801@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960727093309.12023A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 27, 96 09:34:10 am"

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As Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> > /usr/tmp is not supposed to be writeable, it's not even supposed to
> 
> Is it (potentially) harmful to leave it writeable?

No, except that only broken (non-conforming) software would assume
/usr/tmp exists at all.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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