Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 09:54:46 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xemacs installs world writable dir Message-ID: <7132.878975686@axl.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Nov 1997 12:58:56 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971107125736.9991C-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Mark Murray wrote: > Right. I'd go with /var/tmp/<portname>/ (at a quick guess). Well, from my (albeit plebian) understanding of hier(7), /var/tmp is for things that need to survive reboots. I understand that /tmp is for things that can die with the box's consciousness. I don't like the idea of offering lusers a menu of abusible directories -- I'd prefer having two sticky directories to fret over per virgin box (/tmp and /var/tmp). And beautifully enough, this would mean having the package make use of something that already exists on a vanilla FreeBSD box. Gee, imagine that! ;-) On Fri, 07 Nov 1997 12:58:56 EST, Chuck Robey wrote: > Well, at a minimum, then, couldn't it respect the user's TMPDIR > variable? I would imagine that having users hiding locks in secret and mystical places would cause trouble for xemacs when it tries to work out what is and isn't locked, but I admit I don't know how it _really_ manages its locking... Sheldon.
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