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Date:      Sat, 08 Nov 1997 10:11:33 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xemacs installs world writable dir 
Message-ID:  <199711080811.KAA23078@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

You are right. It seems that /va/run is the religiously correct dir to 
use, as it gets blatted at boot time.

> I don't like the idea of offering lusers a menu of abusible directories

Quite so.

M
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