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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:13:04 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>, Andrzej Tobola <ato@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d cleartmp
Message-ID:  <20061017211303.GC1019@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20061017210527.GD92966@submonkey.net>
References:  <200610161301.k9GD1j0C074012@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061017173133.GD70184@comp.chem.msu.su> <20061017210527.GD92966@submonkey.net>

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On 2006.10.17 22:05:28 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> Also, if X requires certain directories, wouldn't it be better to blow
> them away here and have them created from a boot time script?  Otherwise
> I don't understand how they ever get created.

The X temporary directories has to be created early to avoid a race
condition where people can do something bad to the X server and other
X programs... AFAIR... I can't recall the details, just that there
issues with nuking the X temporary directories which means it needs to
be done careful.  I would guess the cvs logs for the respective
scripts should document the issues.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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