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Re: where user temp files should go, env var names
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris () OPENSOURCEADVOCATE ORG>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:55:34 -0500
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Aaron Drew wrote:
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:11:16 +1100 From: Aaron Drew <ripper () HOTKEY NET AU> To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Re: where user temp files should go, env var names I wouldn't envisage a kernel patch to give each tty or user its own virtual /tmp being be THAT hard to do.
The kernel doesn't differentiate between directories in the filesystem. For all the kernel cares /tmp is where user directories are stored. The kernel doesn't ever know or treat differently any names of dirs in the filesystem. This definitely has nothing at all to do with the kernel whatsoever. It is a userland programming issue. The kernel does not impose policy decisions upon systems, that is what a sysadmin is for. Fix the programmer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open source advocate This message is copyright 2000, all rights reserved. Views expressed are my own, not necessarily shared by my employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #[Mike A. Harris bash tip #3 - how to disable core dumps] # Put the following at the bottom of your ~/.bash_profile ulimit -c 0
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