сб, 6 мар. 2021 г. в 21:30, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org>: > > Matthieu Herrb <matth...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > > Linux, systemd and XDG have inventend this /run/user/$uid tmpfs that > > is created automagically and they use that in place of /tmp for > > volatile things that don't beloing to $HOME, but this is not a can of > > worms I want to open now. > > Awesome, another directory to drop stuff and run a filesystem out of space > with unclear consequences... > > This does not fit with our direction either.
So this code appeared in X11R4. There was no VCS repo, I suppose, so no history. There are basically four cases why xdm may fail to create ~/.Xauthority: a) home directory doesn't exist b) home directory is non-writeable due to permissions c) /home is full d) /home is on NFS and there are locking/network issues. I'm not sure if (a) is a valid case. (b) is a variant of my case, as I said, I can live without this feature. In the case of (c) users (non-admins) won't be able to do something anyway. Can't speak for NFS (I've quit the job where /home on NFS has been set up a few years ago) so no opinion on (d). -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
