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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:39:20 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Good practice for /tmp
Message-ID:  <20010905183920.A1095@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20010904234958.A487@jochem.dyndns.org>; from j.kossen@home.nl on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:49:58PM %2B0200
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From: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp
Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:49:58PM +0200

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:42:45AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> >     'man tuning' (with a recent -stable).  In it I talk about /tmp vs
> >     /var/tmp and why it doesn't make sense to keep them separate any more.
> >     And these days people generally do not rm -rf /tmp at boot either.
> 
> Maybe in future releases, the /var/tmp directory/partition or the /tmp
> directory/partition could be removed? Unfortunately, according to the
> FHS they both need to exist...

Then, they can not be removed.  Not until the FHS allows it :-)

They will either be removed, or changes incompatible with the FHS be
avoided at all costs.  One of the beautiful things of FreeBSD is the
well-known and standard places where things are.  It is very nice to
know what to expect and where to find it.  I think that breaking this
is a terrible idea.

-giorgos


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