From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 6 20:21:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1.free.fr (postfix1.free.fr [212.27.32.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F39137BBED for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 20:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: from safi (paris11-nas2-42-97.dial.proxad.net [212.27.42.97]) by postfix1.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id E920F28027; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:21:32 +0200 (MEST) From: "mouss" To: "Matthew Dillon" , "Peter van Dijk" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:33:20 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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