[sorry for delayed reply; I've been ill with flu since Sunday, and I'm just catching up]
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 08:42:54AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:08:19PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Debian does clean /tmp at boot, though the FHS does recommend it. > > And there's nothing to stop us adding the following to post_mountall: > > > rm -rf /tmp/user > > mkdir -m 0755 /tmp/user > > > This gives us everything that /run/user gives us, without needing to > > touch /run. Note that the primary motivation for it being under > > /run AFAICT is that Fedora has pathological /tmp reaping behaviour > > enabled by default, so this is a workaround for their brokenness > > rather than there being an inherent need for it to be under /run. > > These same tmp reaping tools exist in Debian, and we have no control over > whether admins are using them. It's not sufficient to use a directory which > *on a default system* provides the required behavior. > > The FHS definition of /tmp does *not* allow it to fulfill the XDG's > requirements. We can certainly patch our tmpreaper and any alternatives to whitelist the directory. This is not an insurmountable obstacle. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
