Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 00:43:28 +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: <20000607004328.F37217@vuurwerk.nl> In-Reply-To: <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:40:41AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000606222934.9047A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz> <20000606141000.H36228@vuurwerk.nl> <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:40:41AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :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. > > It should be /var/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. I agree wholeheartedly with you. I was, therefore, not giving an opinion, just interpreting man hier :) Greetz, Peter. -- petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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