Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > ACK. /tmp on tmpfs is a nice hack (I use it myself!), but it's a > terrible default.
I can't say whether it's a good default or not (though it seems to work pretty well in practice), but the OP's argument is completely silly. Most apps use /tmp not for "reducing memory usage", but for communicating with other apps (of course, often, such as in a shell script, or indeed the user himself, the choice of /tmp is not done by the app itself, but by the invoker) -- it's a common namespace. Of course it's the rare exceptions to this that cause problems; whether there are enough such exceptions to make the default a bad idea, I dunno. [apparently my /tmp got switched over to tmpfs by some automatic upgrade, and it took me _months_ to even notice...] -miles -- Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pq9tdpbl....@catnip.gol.com
